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?
Listened to A Court of Frost and Starlight from the ACOTAR series on audio. It was bad enough as is, but I was determined to power through to the end so I could finish the series…
until a dark, sexy, brooding, shadowy 500 year old fae lord said “libary”.
Thrice.
I listened to that and I have absolutely no memory of this. Huh.
Girl, didn’t you just hear me say “li-bary?”
Libary and meer instead of mirror are my biggest pet peeves.
Same thing in A Court of Wings and Ruin. I’m trying so hard to power through this book because my sister loves it but if I have to hear the word “mate” one more time I’m going to scream