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?
“Es-kew” IS the correct pronunciation though. It’s not that narrator’s fault that the word is so commonly mispronounced that the wrong version has become the default.
You’re thinking of “askew.”
This is giving me flashbacks to the time I heard a guy on a podcast pronounce “papyrus” correctly - “PAP-a-rus” - and everyone jumped on him for not saying “puh-PIE-rus.”
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/papyrus