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Old 02-05-2016, 08:49 AM   #88
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Originally Posted by issybird View Post


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.
How is that word supposed to be pronounced? (I thought it was "kway")

I know how you feel. I just dropped Niven's Ringworld because the narrator pronounced Louis as "Louie".

That's not correct, not in my book.
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