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?
My friend recommended the book “Anne of Green Gables” to her father to listen to on long drives (he used to drive trucks for a living). It was one of her favorite books so he had heard her talk about it before. In the book Anne lives in a town called Avonlea (av-in-lee) and the narrator or the book called it Ay-von-lay. He knew that was not how it was pronounced so he didn’t finish listening to the book.