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Mispronounce   /mɪsprənˈaʊns/   Listen
Mispronounce

verb
(past & past part. mispronounced; pres. part. mispronouncing)
1.
Pronounce a word incorrectly.  Synonym: misspeak.






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"Mispronounce" Quotes from Famous Books



... and broken, age had touched his vocal chords, And nearly every Sunday he would mispronounce the words Of the hymns, and 'twas no wonder, he was old and nearly blind, And the choir rattling onward always left ...
— Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two • Various

... what the Scotsman said when for the first time in his life he tasted real whisky: 'It may be puir, but I canna drink it'; so it is with your German. It strikes one less as a language than as an exhibition. If I might offer advice, I should say: Mispronounce as much as possible, and throw in as many mistakes as ...
— Three Men on the Bummel • Jerome K. Jerome



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