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mispronounce

[ mis-pruh-nouns ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

verb (used with or without object)

, mis·pro·nounced, mis·pro·nounc·ing.

mispronounce

/ ˌmɪsprəˈnaʊns; ˌmɪsprəˌnʌnsɪˈeɪʃən /

First recorded in 1585–95; mis- ¹ + pronounce

On Tuesday night, David Letterman titled his Top Ten list "Top Ten Ways to Mispronounce Idina Menzel."

To mispronounce a word because it is misspelt is only indirectly an error of orthoepy.

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.

They acquire a number of new words, which they do not understand and which they persistently mispronounce.

It is common to hear English-speakers mispronounce the words Buddha and Buddhism.

As if that were not wild enough, they mispronounce it atrociously.

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