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Old 02-04-2016, 03:18 PM   #61
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Originally Posted by Catlady View Post
A book I listened to recently had a funny instance where the voice actor egregiously mispronounced a common word in a character's dialog. I was mentally tut-tutting at such shocking ineptitude, but a few sentences later the second character remarked on the mispronunciation, which I then realized had been deliberate.



Well, in the narrator's defense, it is an alternate pronunciation, per Merriam-Webster's 11th Collegiate Dictionary:
One of the words I mispronounced did have an alternate pronunciation and I had invented a third... It's tough, I tell you, tough!
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