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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    1 year ago

    “Their Eyes Were Watching God” The narrator pronounced a Florida city “MY-can-o-pee” instead of “mi-can-O-pee” (short i). To be fair, it’s Mycanopy, so I get it’s confusing, but it’s a real town!