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Originally Posted by issybird
I’m listening to this too and overall, I also think it’s excellent, but the mispronunciations are irritating. Even if Dufris went with the obvious for Spokane, the producer should have corrected it; and Dufris himself should have checked the pronunciation of chypre, since he was obviously unfamiliar with the word. There are others.
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I completely agree about how jarring the mispronunciations can be in a book narration. I'm listening to one (Home Run by Nathan Lowell, narrator Emily Woo Zeller) where the narrator said "esso" for 'S-O-S'. I couldn't figure out what it was supposed to be, so had to go dig out the book and check.
