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mispronounce

/mis-pruh-nouns/US // ˌmɪs prəˈnaʊns //UK // (ˌmɪsprəˈnaʊns) //

错读,误读,错念,错报

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Definitions

  1. 1

    mis·pro·nounced, mis·pro·nounc·ing.

    • : to pronounce incorrectly.

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Examples

  • While it’s a name that many mispronounce, it’s also one that’s rapidly rising in the comedy charts.

  • Smith also deliberately mispronounced the names of several Nigerian men’s basketball players on Monday’s episode following the national team’s exhibition upset of Team USA, for which he also apologized Tuesday.

  • When people slightly mispronounce words, our minds auto-correct and we hear the word pronounced correctly.

  • 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.”

  • 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.