Definition of mispronounce
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mispronounce
[ mis-pr
uh
–
nouns
]
/ ˌmɪs prəˈnaʊns /
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verb (used with or without object),
mis·pro·nounced,
mis·pro·nounc·ing.
to
pronounce
incorrectly.
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Origin of
mispronounce
OTHER WORDS FROM mispronounce
mis·pro·nounc·er,
noun
mis·pro·nun·ci·a·tion
[mis-pr
uh
-nuhn-see-
ey
-sh
uh
n],
/ˌmɪs prəˌnʌn siˈeɪ ʃən/,
noun
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Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2021
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Example sentences from the Web for
mispronounce
When people slightly
mispronounce
words, our minds auto-correct and we hear the word pronounced correctly.
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He’s also repeatedly stressed his “conservative Tennessee values” as a native son of the state and introduced a dark racial undertone to the race by consistently mispronouncing Sethi’s last name as “Set-ee” instead of “Seth-ee.”
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On Tuesday night, David Letterman titled his Top Ten list “Top Ten Ways to
Mispronounce
Idina Menzel.”
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March 5, 2014
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DAILY BEAST
To
mispronounce
a word because it is misspelt is only indirectly an error of orthoepy.
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Robert Gordon Latham
There were two lines in it which I am going to
mispronounce
; but you are not Scotch, so I don’t care for you, uncle, darling.
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Charles Reade
They acquire a number of new words, which they do not understand and which they persistently
mispronounce
.
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S. Baring-Gould
It is common to hear English-speakers
mispronounce
the words Buddha and Buddhism.
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Sir Monier Monier-Williams
As if that were not wild enough, they
mispronounce
it atrociously.
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Harry Leon Wilson
British Dictionary definitions for
mispronounce
mispronounce
/ (
ˌmɪsprəˈnaʊns
) /
verb
to pronounce (a word) wrongly
Derived forms of mispronounce
mispronunciation
(
ˌmɪsprəˌnʌnsɪˈeɪʃən
),
noun
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