How To Use Mispronounce In A Sentence
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But above all, Sir Anthony, she should be mistress of orthodoxy, that she might not misspell and mispronounce words so shamefully as girls usually do; and likewise that she might reprehend the true meaning of what she is saying.
Tallulah Morehead: Big Brother 12: (Mala)Props to the Houseguests.
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So don't laugh at someone who mispronounces words until you know a bit more about their origins, not only regional (a point that Mark makes) but also with respect to class and family educational level.
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French learners of English often mispronounce "ch" as "sh".
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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.
Languagehat.com: PRONUNCIATION WARS IN TEXAS.
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She mispronounces many Latinate words
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What may sound like 'of' is the weak form of háve and so this or apostrophes should be written instead: woùld have, shoùld've, cān't have, mîght've etc. - * óv óf goôf cf. plural âgeing cf. sing sínging -- j - singe síngeing. *âking âcheing mâking snooker, drama cûeing = line cf. singe síngeing - j -- sing sínging thíng often mispronounced 'Beizhing':
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
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It gets mispronounced or misspelled, but you get used to that after a year or two in school.
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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.
Interest Turns Away, But Gulf Coast Still Suffers
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By the time I'd gotten halfway through it I was ready to strangle him every time he mispronounced the word ‘drama.’
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In his excitement, he mispronounces Gordon's name.
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He mispronounced quite common words: urticate, salpinx, bordereau.
The Shadow of the Torturer
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The fact that this sort of name is systematically mispronounced is really alarming.
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Their high voices squealing with delight when Carla mispronounced some word they coaxed her to repeat.
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The sneers and muffled giggles that accompanied his every mispronounced word attested to the fact.
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How much steam-piston euphony survived the voyage from Australia is vague, since Englishmen regularly mispronounced the town to rhyme with ‘stagger’.
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As often as not, the journalist mispronounces the name of the religious group he or she is covering.
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The thing that does bug me is when people say “Québécois” but mispronounce it.
Matthew Yglesias » My Long-Awaited Revenge
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Besides, people mispronounce my name all the time.
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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...
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How powerful do you have to be to mispronounce your own name and not have anyone tell you?
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Any parent knows the joy of hearing a child mispronounce a word.
June 2007
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Words are mispronounced, accents are horribly wrong, and the acting is no more convincing than an elementary school play put on at Christmas by Grade 4 kids.
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How powerful do you have to be to mispronounce your own name and not have anyone tell you?
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Many people mispronounce her last name, which is properly pronounced COG-lin.
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I can now also mispronounce sufficient Russian phrases to greet the train staff as I squeeze past them on my way to the restaurant car and to ask Sergei, my carriage attendant, for a cup of tea.
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a type of slip of the ear in which people mishear a word and mispronounce it, then insist that the malapropism is correct.
Eggcorns: Folk Etymology Creating New Meanings Every Day
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French learners of English often mispronounce "ch" as "sh".
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The other day I heard a government minister mispronounce a word.
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I've always had a tendency to trip over words or mispronounce things that I can say perfectly well in my head.
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Anna Wintour wouldn't turn me to dust with a single withering glance if I mispronounced the word charmeuse.
Mastering the Ceremonies
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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)
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He repeatedly mispronounced words and slurred his speech.
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mu'umu'u moo oo-MOO oo: a type of dress, often mispronounced as "moo-moo.
Languagehat.com: BRINGING BACK HAWAIIAN.
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What is -- and I know I'm going to mispronounce this -- Poujadism?
The Oxford Companion to Politics of the World
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Correct your child every time she mispronounces a word.
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French learners of English often mispronounce "ch" as "sh".
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They regularly mispronounce their Js in names begriming with JO, but not elsewhere.
Gallstones of the Unexamined Life « Unknowing
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Um, if I mispronounce your name, I am terribly sorry.
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Even where I work a paleontology parkquite a few of the staff often joke when they stutter through or mispronounce the word paleontologist, yet have no problem with "archaeologist".
Random postings
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Often people in Arabic mispronounce the word Qisas as "qasas" which has a different etymology.
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
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I even considered that the word was mispronounced and that the speaker meant to say "fluffier".
Banging And Swooping (And Fluffing)
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He mispronounced several words and phrases and even his spin doctors privately concede he was not at his best.
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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).
Your Right Hand Thief
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I supposed that if Kamchak had known his name was being used in this fashion, and mispronounced at that, and Boots was within his grasp he might have, as a joke, for Kamchak was fond of jokes, had Boots put in a sack and put out in front of the bosk, curious to see if they would move in that direction on that particular morning.
Cinnamon Roll
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I'm a mum for goodness sake, I'm supposed to wear baggy cardies and compulsively mispronounce pop stars' names.
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And then we sat down and he told me in no uncertain terms that I'd mispronounced a word, and that if I ever embarrassed him like that again, he'd kill me.
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And, last but not least, she does not, like most people, mispronounce the word joust.
