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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    1 year ago

    In the Magician’s Land, there’s an Australian character who identifies a galah, but it’s pronounced gull-a not ga-LAAR.

    (The otherwise good reader really doesn’t sound convincing as Australian, especially a rich girl from Tasmania).