We were actually talking about A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine. Can't recommend it enough. It's narrowly my favourite lesbian science fiction debut novel-turned-series about a galactic empire of 2019.

That usually works, but not always. The Wheel of Time audiobooks have two narrators. Michael Kramer reads when the POV is from a male character and Kate Reading reads female POVs. They apparently don’t to each other, because they pronounce many names differently. For instance, is the character Moghedien pronounced MOH-gah-deen or moh-GED-ee-in?

The problem with audiobooks is you can miss a key word or phrase when something is introduced and then go through the whole book wrong.

I sort of do. It's half mangled version of the name, half an abstract identifier of the character, and there's a bit of "shape" of the name as a whole too, I suppose. But when I want to say the name aloud, I realise it's pretty far from what the actual name sounds like.