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What (who) is mispronounce - definition
mispronounce
¦ verb pronounce wrongly.
Derivatives
mispronunciation noun
mispronounce
(mispronounces, mispronouncing, mispronounced)
If you mispronounce a word, you pronounce it wrongly.
He repeatedly mispronounced words and slurred his speech.
VERB: V n
Mispronounce
·vt & ·vi To pronounce incorrectly.
Examples of use of mispronounce
1. Kennedy has been criticised for baffling early morning performances in recent months, which have seen her mispronounce words and let sentences tail off.
2. The overflow crowd cheered, clapped and stomped feet for a candidate who gets toy tractors as welcome gifts from supporters (he grew up on a farm), whose name many French mispronounce and who was polling in the single digits only a few months ago.
3. Originally known as the New Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin were formed by Jimmy Page in 1'68 and took their name from a remark by the Who‘s drummer Keith Moon that they would go down like a "lead zeppelin". The "a" was dropped from the word lead after fears that Americans would mispronounce it.
4. Introduced to viewers of NBC‘s morning TV show by a group of schoolchildren who had the temerity to mispronounce her name, she responded with a loud – and unmistakable – "F×××ing hell!" In fairness, the 25–year–old acrtess may have thought her microphone was turned offf.
5. The country‘s president is Nursultan Nazarbayev, not Nazharbayev, as Borat spells it when he lists his heroes. (Many real–life Westerners mispronounce Na–zar–bayev as Na–zhar–bayev.) Women have the right to vote in Kazakhstan although the country has yet to hold elections judged free and fair by Western observers.