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Originally Posted by issybird
 
Seriously, I listen to a lot of books with egregious mispronunciations (non-fiction, major publishers, etc.). I only wish this were part of the process!
I'm still shuddering at the biography of John Quincy Adams where the word "quay" was pronounced "kway." No, I'm not making that up. And it's not even as if the narrator got it wrong once and someone clued him in so he could fix it subsequently. It was consistent throughout the book. |
Some publishers put more into the audio than others. Someone has to "listen" to the recording and like editing, sometimes that gets sloppy. It could also be that whoever did the listening didn't know how to pronounce it.