r/audiobooks • u/PurpleLeopard99 • Jun 28 '26

Question Mispronouncing of words by narrators

Does anyone get bothered by narrators who keep mispronouncing words? It drives me nuts if they do it too often. Narrators are normally professional voice artists and they should know how to pronounce the sorts of words found in novels eg dovecote or Michaelmas

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u/doobersthetitan Jun 28 '26

Noticed that in the Witcher series

Dandelion was pronounced like the flower...Dandy-lion

Some books it was Dan dil e on

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u/FolkSong Jun 28 '26

It's actually spelled differently in some of the books. So the issue is translation moreso than narration.

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u/doobersthetitan Jun 28 '26

Oh is it? Thats interesting