emPHASis on syllABLEs

I've been listening to an audio book read by the author. He has a decent voice, although his inexperience as an author shows in his overuse of "he said" and such. More annoyingly to me is his mispronunciation of certain words - "exPERTly" is one that is constantly jarring.

I had my share of words that I mispronounced because I got much of my vocabulary from reading. "awry" is one that I pronounced "AW-REE" for years. But I wasn't paid for it.