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?

  • DonSmo@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    I’ll never understand how anyone thinks that GIF is pronounced as JIF. It’s one letter different to the word gift. Do people give each other Christmas jifts? The G also stands for graphic. We say graphic not jraphic. Even creators can just be plain wrong at times.