Is it really so difficult to look up the pronunciation of a word/name, dear #audiobook narrator?
It's not "Chai-Chester"!
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I'm not tagging the book, because I'm actually enjoying it. This mispronunciation though was like nails on a chalkboard.
Merethebookgal I listened to an audiobook last year where the narrator pronounced “hearth” as “her-th.”Hearths were prominent in the story so it was like nails on the chalkboard every time. They must‘ve gotten a lot of complaints, because in the sequel, the narrator pronounced hearth correctly 😂 1d
MemoirsForMe Oh my! 😬 1d
julesG @Merethebookgal 🙄🙄🙄 maybe they thought it needed to sound extra fancy. 1d
ImperfectCJ Place names are the worst. I listened to an audiobook set in Massachusetts a while back, and the mispronunciations of town names was 😬 Indie audiobooks I get since those are usually just the author/rights holder and the narrator, and the narrator does all the editing/producing. But with books where there's a whole crew to listen and catch mistakes, it's a little more annoying. Like with copy editing mistakes in publisher vs indie titles. 1d
Lcsmcat 🤦🏻♀️ 1d
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