Just Say It Right Already!

First of all, I hope everybody enjoyed the holiday weekend! I watched a lot of crap TV on Netflix and did some cleaning because all my plans fell through. Better luck next time, I suppose.

Today I'll be talking about one of my biggest pet peeves with audiobooks. Pronunciation. It drives me absolutely insane when the reader pronounces something incorrectly, and I'm not talking poTAYto poTAHto here. In The Murder Room: The Heirs of Sherlock Holmes Gather to Solve the World's Most Perplexing Cold Cases, which I did a mini review of a few days ago, there is a discussion of a case in Manlius, NY. I got really excited because this is near my hometown of Oswego and I think it's cool that the Vidocq Society helped out with something local. If you know the area, you hear Manlius and you automatically think Fayetteville.  Every single time the reader says Fayetteville, he pronounces it incorrectly and it drives me up the wall.  I suppose it's not really his fault, but come on.

Anytime I hear a mispronounced word I lose focus on the story and am only able to focus on the word, no matter how many times it happens. I just can't seem to get over it. Maybe I'm crazy.

What are your pet peeves?