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Old 09-02-2021, 10:53 PM   #151
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Perhaps it's different in Britain, but hearing Penelope Keith just now reading an Agatha raisin book pronouncing the crafting term "macrame" as Muh-KRAH-may (rather than MAC-ruh-may) was rather jolting!
I think you'll find that pronunciation is default in many "Commonwealth" variants of English, like Aus Eng and NZE for example
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Old 09-03-2021, 08:08 AM   #152
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Old 09-03-2021, 09:31 AM   #153
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Old 10-02-2024, 07:04 PM   #154
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The mispronunciations in my current listen are mounting. Louis (as in Mountbatten)*. Monongahela. Cayuga. Coughlin. I can't remember them all. Sigh. I blame both the narrator, who clearly doesn't care when it's a proper name he's not seen before, and the director/producer/whoever's in charge of qc!

*And compounding this, the author gets Edwina's title wrong. In the 20's, she was Lady Louis, not Lady Mountbatten. And he even quotes a source who got it right! Did he not notice, or did he snicker to himself at the idiot...?
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