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?

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    10 months ago

    Currently this is going on with Rabecca Yarros and Fourth Wing. She used Scottish Gaelic (gal-ick) words in her books for place/character names. She recently went on an interview and called them Irish Gaelic (gay-lick) which is a different language. She proceeded to wildly mispronounced every single name. The audibook does the same.