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

    Maybe he was supposed to be from Rhode Island? We randomly add rs and also drop them so there’s ‘parker’ and ‘spatular’ but we also pronounce car as ‘kah’.