My worst example was the word GIF pronounced like the peanut butter instead of properly as in Graphical. It’s worse because Amanda Montell was writing a linguistics book about the history of language and words.
Recent example was “eschew” which is pronounced Eh-shoo but the narrator said “Eskew” and it confused me so much I had to Google it to make sure I hadn’t been saying it wrong my whole life. What exmaples have you found?
Don’t remember the book or the narrator, but it was something I already wasn’t really enjoying. The word was accoutrements, and they pronounced it a-cooter-mints. I paused the book and stared at the wall for a few minutes debating if I should just read it myself for the rest of the book or suffer through the narration.
I can’t stop laughing
They’re what you can offer your girlfriend if her cooter smells bad.
This is the funniest answer. Something about the staring at the wall bit just took me out. I feel you.