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 can almost understand trying to do that with the audiobook in order to recreate the visual joke that you can’t see. Especially if it’s an older recording originally intended for people with visual impairments.
That said, whatever the intent, I suspect the joke wouldn’t land the same way, and it would just get old listening to mispronounced characters.