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 realized after I listened to a whole book that the narrator was mispronouncing the main character’s name!
I’ve heard other mispronounced words, but can’t think of examples right now.
How do you pronounce it wrong
I’ve actually been almost always amazed by the work they delivered, especially some audiobooks in Russian I’ve listened, truly splendid ! So basically never really noticed anything, and didn’t even care much
No clue what the script actually said for the narrator, but the audiobook for The Housekeeper & the Professor had a wrong word entirely. A baseball player was described as weighing something something kilometers
GIF is pronounced like the peanut butter and it always has been. Anyone pronouncing with a hard G is pronouncing it incorrectly.
I listened to an audiobook where the narrator pronounced “ye” as in the abbreviation for “the” as yee. So many times.
Years ago, I listened to a book narrated by David Ogden Stiers (Major Charles Emerson Winchester III). He did a really good job, except he kept pronouncing the North Dakota city of Minot (MY-not) as Mee-noh, which is probably something close to the proper French pronunciation, but to a midwesterner it is very jarring.
And on an episode of Cheers, they kept calling the capital of South Dakota, Pierre (PIER), as pee-AYR, like the French man’s name.
My 6th grade teacher read us Harry Potter (the year it came out and long before the movies) and pronounced Hermione as Hermoyne. It wrecked me for a while because I read the next two books about Harry, Ron, and Hermoyne.
I always though GIF didn’t have one pronunciation. That both “gif” and “jif” were correct
Ugh, yes. Wil Wheaton is terrible about this. I listened to the Ready Player One sequel (do not recommend) and he mispronounced at least a dozen words throughout the book. He did the same in his rendition of The Martian, but thankfully I found the better version without him.