User:Ungoliant MMDCCLXIV/odd pronunciations

The purpose of this page is to record unexpected pronunciations found in media so that potential variants can be identified. It is likely that most of them are idiosyncrasies or individual mistakes; this list will make it easy to identify those that are more widespread than expected and perhaps add them to the entry. Feel free to add data and comments.

English

• Jesuit with apparent /ʒ/ (instead of /z(j)/): [1]
• Xhosa with apparent /z/ (instead of /k/): Taboo (series; episode in South Africa)
• Guinea with /ˈeɪə/ (instead of /i/): [2]
• Linux with two /ɪ/’s (?)
• Chomsky with /h/ (?)
• absolutism with /ˈlu/: [3]
• his (the pronoun) with two syllables, as if his’s: [4]
• Wallachia as ~/vəˈlɑːhiə/: [5]
• Abel with /æ/: [6]
• tentacles with /i/: [7]
• emphatic a as /ʌ/: [8]

Portuguese

• latte with word-final /e/ in standard BP: Black Mirror, s04e01
• utes with near word-final /e/ in standard BP: [9] (the singular is pronounced with /i/ a few seconds earlier)