Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To pronounce badly or incorrectly.
- intransitive verb To make a poor pronunciation.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To pronounce erroneously or incorrectly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- verb To pronounce incorrectly.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
pronounce (a word, phrase, etc.)incorrectly .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb pronounce a word incorrectly
Etymologies
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Examples
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Often people in Arabic mispronounce the word Qisas as "qasas" which has a different etymology.
Tuesday, September 30, 2008 As'ad 2008
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Just please spare us your outrage when people of the other stupid party say stupid things about your stupid candidates (or mispronounce a word).
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Any parent knows the joy of hearing a child mispronounce a word.
June 2007 2007
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Any parent knows the joy of hearing a child mispronounce a word.
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If you've read this far down in the comments then you've seen many examples of the way we "mispronounce" names of Spanish origin.
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Since I don't know any fresas, not even my kids 'friends, I have no idea whether they mispronounce English when they are SPEAKING English or not.
Fresa vs. Naca... 2010
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I was wondering if you could tell us about Mark and Kevin and I'm probably going to mispronounce the name Curole.
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Under the influence of alcohol, you might mispronounce Azerbaijan as aspiration.
Will Adams: Azerbaijan's Eurovision 2011 Song: "Running Scared" by Ell & Nikki (VIDEO) Will Adams 2011
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They regularly mispronounce their Js in names begriming with JO, but not elsewhere.
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The thing that does bug me is when people say “Québécois” but mispronounce it.
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