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?
The narrator of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L Shirer consistently mispronounces the name of one of the nazi newspapers as Volkischer Beo-bachter instead of Volkischer Be-obachter. It’s like saying “The People’s Obs-erver” instead of “The People’s Ob-server”.
Funny thing is that I heard the same mispronunciation in a recent news program on MSNBC or CNN or somewhere like that.