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?

  • FuzzySAM@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    For example she says “aLEKsey alexanDROvich” instead of " alekSEY aleXANdrovich".

    This is interesting to me, because I would pronounce the given name the (evidently) wrong way, and the surname the (apparently) correct way, when faced with that particular example. Neat. 100% American.