When I used to read a lot of Star Wars novels, the author of one of the New Jedi Order series REALLY loved the phrase “I’ve not.”

“I’ve not been to Fuckelton Prime.”

“You’ve not been there?”

“No I’ve not.”

Like, why do you have against “I haven’t?”

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.”

“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.

Breakfast Of Champions is not a good one to start with. I maintain that that book was Vonnegut seeing how far he could shove a book up its own ass, now meta and pretentious he could make it, and still have people fawn over it.