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

    GIF is pronounced both ways and there have been wars fought over the pronunciation https://time.com/5791028/how-to-pronounce-gif/

    I am currently listening to Babel by RF Kuang. This is set in Oxford university and they seem to mispronounce all the famous names (eg Bodleian is pronounced boadleian instead of with a hard o)