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Dear Audiobook Producers and Narrators,
In Canadian English, the word “toque” or “tuque” doesn‘t rhyme with “joke”, like something you might smoke, around midnight à la Steve Miller Band. It rhymes with “Luke”, as in, “Hey, Luke, nice toque. I lost one just like it - what a fluke.”
I had to abandon the above #audiobook due to this mispronunciation - as it takes place in the arctic, the headwear in question comes up quite often.
Best,
-KVanRead
KVanRead #ReadCanada #Yukon 4y
Bookish.SAM 🤣🤣🤣 this sounds like a completely legit reason to abandon an audiobook. That would have driven me crazy! (edited) 4y
Lindy @Bookish.SAM @KVanRead That kind of thing drives me nuts too. Tuque is such a common word in Canada; easy to check. 4y
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rabbitprincess Jeez, they need to do their research, eh! (edited) 4y
Read-y_Picker Uggghhhhh 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️ I fully support your decision! (Sorry) 4y
MsMelissa I understand this. I listened to an audiobook where the author kept pronouncing the name for the city of Regina like the female name Regina and it drove me bonkers 😠 4y
KVanRead @Bookish.SAM @Lindy @rabbitprincess @Read-y_Picker And the hilarious thing is due to the Arctic setting, the word toque is on practically every page! It‘s just “toke, toke, toke” all the time.😂😂😂 4y
KVanRead @Book_Fiend_Melissa ugh 🤦🏻♀️ I listened to The Glass Hotel earlier this year and the narrator kept calling a character named Yvette “Yuhvette” -😬 but at least It was a minor character so didn‘t come up much. I‘m surprised the authors don‘t have any oversight- I‘m sure they would want to correct this stuff. 4y
LeahBergen Noooo!! 😂😂😂 4y
KathyWheeler Mary Kay Andrews sets her books in the American South — usually Georgia. I was listening to one of her books and the narrator said “kudzu” with the first syllable rhyming with “dude” instead of “dud”. There‘s a lot of kudzu in the South and hearing it pronounced like that nearly drove me nuts! 4y
Hooked_on_books I am driven crazy by mispronunciations in audiobooks! If it‘s a word here or there, I can deal, but a main word to the narrative is sooooo frustrating. 4y
KVanRead @LeahBergen @KathyWheeler @Hooked__on__books The struggle is real!!! Back when I was in journalism school mispronunciation was an automatic‘F‘ - guess these audiobook producers don‘t have that high a standard 😌 4y
KathyWheeler @KVanRead To me there‘s not an excuse to not know how to pronounce something now that there‘s the internet. If you aren‘t sure about a pronunciation, just look up how to pronounce the word and there‘s audio for it! When I taught in grad school, I gave lessons on how to pronounce my name (maiden name = Pavlakovich) just so I wouldn‘t have to hear it said wrong every single day. (edited) 4y
KVanRead @KathyWheeler Exactly! 4y
Josee.lit.a.lu.et.lira 😳🤪😢🤣 Have you thought about sending an email, for future productions? 🤷🏻♀️ I‘m the kind who does that sometimes 🤦🏻♀️😉 4y
KVanRead @Josee.a.lu.lit.et.lira I‘m the kind that thinks about doing stuff like that but never gets around to it😂😂🤣 4y
Josee.lit.a.lu.et.lira @KVanRead 🤣 4y
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