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?
I’m listening to the audiobook of Run, Rose, Run by James Patterson and Dolly Parton. The characters are country music musicians and the story takes place in Nashville and Las Vegas. The narrator has twice pronounced “chaise lounge” with the French pronunciation. Like “shez long”.
Said that way in the UK but I’m guessing it was an American narrator!
Said that way in America, too.