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Hah! Another in my Hall of Infamy, after mangling Mrs. Adams in Winter: A Journey in the Last Days of Napoleon.
Why can't these narrators read, or at least skim, a book before they record it and if a word or place or name is unfamiliar, find out how to say it, instead of winging it? |
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Checked my Canadian Oxford English Dictionary and the only pronunciation it gives for flaccid is 'flasid'. 'Flaksid' has got to be a U.S. pronunciation.
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LOL. That one is doubly bad.
And sem-eye and mul-teye, etc. It's like fingernails on a chalkboard. Last edited by llcj; 03-08-2017 at 10:31 AM. |
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Often is an excellent analogy. Frequently mispronounced and still wrong. . Another case where everyone says similarly constructed words (hasten, soften) correctly, but some inexplicably go awry when it comes to often. |
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. So true.
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So ... you want the narrators to use the secondary pronunciation for flaccid but the primary pronunciation for often? Me, I don't care, as long as it's a legitimate pronunciation. Spelling, though--that's another matter. Maybe that's why I have become a convert to audiobooks--no spelling horrors to make me cringe. |
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For pronunciations, one that always takes me out of a book is Helo (like, "We have a Helo in bound). So many narrators pronounce it Hello (as in the greeting) when it's military jargon for helicopter and pronounced Heelo.
As for worst narrator. One that comes to mind is Ellen Travolta who did some of J.A. Jance's Joanna Brady books for Books In Motion ages ago. It was pretty obvious she'd had no training (or had and was just bad at it), but she would pause in odd spots to breathe or swallow and it just made things feel off. You could also faintly hear her turning pages as she read which is probably more of a general production quality issue than the narrators fault. AFAIK all of those books have been redone and put out by another publisher at this point. |
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Flaccid is mostly pronounced flas-id with the secondary pronunciation being flak-sid. Given that flas-id is the most used pronunciation, that what I would go with. Also, it sounds better.
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