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?
Sorry to hear that you got this backlash. But also good you offer some behind the scenes info on that, because I don’t think many people know how audiobooks are recorded. I really love the Rivers of London audiobooks, read by Kobna Holbrooke-Smith and in some books there’re interviews with him and Ben Aaronovitch which give some insides into how these audiobooks are developed and produced. Really interesting stuff and I only realized how much work actually goes into these audiobooks when I listend to the interviews. Maybe you could do an AMA or something here about your work at some point. I think many people might be interested.