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’ve talked about this before but it really was super annoying. I listened to the audiobook for the book Seeing Like A State, and the book uses the word ‘metis’, which is a borrowed word from French to mean ‘specific knowledge gained by having done something for a long time, or generations’. It’s pronounced ‘Meh-tea’, the audiobook said ‘meat-us’ THE ENTIRE TIME. It was both annoying and funny, and every time he said it I couldn’t help but mutter ‘meat-us’ to myself.
I… don’t actually think that’s wrong. My understanding was that there were two etymologies and definitions for metis: the French one, which can be pronounced meɪˈtiː or meɪˈtiːs and means a mixed-race person; and the Greek, pronounced ˈmiːtɪs, which basically means street smarts.