TL;DR No.

I swore Narrator on Windows XP was saying “pothole,” as in “pothole start” and “pothole menu end” – maybe even something closer to “pothole-p” with a plosive at the end. I finally got fedup and cracked open an XP VM and ResHacker, and sure enough, it’s saying “popup” with the world’s worst diction.

What I heard:

Reality/Proof:

Still can’t really believe this program had ~40 strings it was certain to need to be able to say clearly, and this was what shipped.

Oh well. Windows XP still rulez.