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The narrator's voice is so irritating and the content not compelling enough to make me put up with it (unlike Empireworld) so may soon DNF.

"grieveously" damaged (my eye roll is enormeous)

chafe pron. as chaff. exalt pron. as exult.

He has now pronounced philosopher Hannah Arendt's surname three ways: Ah-rent (with emphasis on first syllable; unexpectedly correct); Urr-rent (with emphasis on second syllable; incorrect) and Urrunt (I can't even).

The city of Nancy. He pronounces it like Nancy Drew but a few pages later pronounces it to rhyme with Nonnsay. whyyy

And now the narrator is pronouncing WEB DuBois to rhyme with DuMwah (whereas numerous instances exist where DuBois himself kept stressing it rhymes with DuVoice, and this for him was a political point!) argh

possessing pronounced with a hard s on the first ss?

Huxley, Darwin's pulldore?? what word is he trying to pronounce?

Volk ≠ vollk but ≠ follk.

George Mosse ≠ Zhorzh. He was not French but English with German-Jewish background. I have had tea with Mosse! He was not Zhorzh!

philologist ≠ phillyologist. epoch =≠ aypock

John Berger ≠ JohnBurgher.

I feel I am mocking the narrator too much for mispronunciations but this IS a professional voice actor whose bio advertises his versatility with accents. Also, sometimes I can actually not understand what is being said and want the printed version. Today, I heard about something "rivvening" something. What is "rivvening"? What actual verb is the narrator trying to pronounce? Frustration.

more mispronunciations: Uppsala (making it rhyme with Cup Sulla) and comte (as if spelled comté). Arghé.

He just pronounced representative as repretive. @-@

Also I note the narrator is laboriously accent-pronouncing all non-English words and names except for the German ones. @-@ Humboldt (he rhymes it with slumbolt). And yes, we know how hard it is for Anglophones to pronounce Kant (to rhyme with cunt) but either anglicise all or anglicise none.