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?
I listened to a Stephen King book years ago (can’t remember which one) that was, as is often the case, set in New England. I grew up in New England and the narrator drove me insane mispronouncing the names of towns, and various other local-ish things. For instance in New England a milkshake is called a frappe, and it’s pronounced “frap”, correct french be damned. Natick MA is pronounced Nay-tick not Nat-ik. I was so angry i couldn’t enjoy the book. As a narrator, if you’ve never seen a word before you HAVE to check.