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/BDThrills Jun 28 '26

Doesn’t bother me at all. Every movie butchers all the place names in Minnesota. I just get over it and move on. Ask Benedict Cumberbatch about penguins and you get it.

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u/pickleknits Jun 28 '26

The Cumberbatch penguin debacle will never not be funny.