mispronounce

We all stumble over and mispronounce words occasionally.

From Salon ● Mar. 7, 2024

The findings also suggest that when listening to children, adult listeners incorporate expectations of how children commonly mispronounce words, such as "weed" for "read."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2023

“And the cheer for Musl— we cheer for Muslim athletes, like Kareem Al-J—Al-J— Abdul-Jabbar. I know him, and I did mispronounce his name.”

From Washington Times ● May 5, 2023

Titans safety Kevin Byard has been hearing people mispronounce his name most of his life.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 12, 2021

It was a short list, but still I managed to mispronounce IBM and assign the wrong gender to both the floor waxer and the typewriter.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

“POV: your friend mispronounces a word once and now it’s a national holiday. Happy #itsgonnabemay Day!,”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2024

For example, in the Sally Bundock video, the "presenter" mispronounces 15 as "fife-teen", as well as oddly pronouncing project as "pro-ject".

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2023

Biden mispronounces Jon Ossoff's name at Georgia rally in latest gaffe President-elect Joe Biden butchered the name of Georgia Democratic Senate hopeful John Ossoff during an election event Tuesday ahead of the crucial runoff races.

From Fox News ● Dec. 16, 2020

From the books' title, there's the young girl who mispronounces "knife" in class because that's how her father sounds it out.

From Salon ● Apr. 7, 2020

Girl is born, girl learns to talk and walk, girl mispronounces words and falls down.

From "Wintergirls" by Laurie Halse Anderson

He started as a rapper who called himself Shaboozey—the moniker came from a high-school football coach who mispronounced his last name—but no single musical form captured the range of his interests.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

During coverage of the Milan-Cortina Games last month, Liu’s first name was often mispronounced as “uh-LISS-uh” and her last name as either “LOO” or “LEE-ooh.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2026

The uniforms are generic camouflage ones easily bought online, while the Ukrainian words are heavily mispronounced and spoken with a strong Russian accent.

From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2025

A panel discussion veered off course when Mace adamantly mispronounced Harris’ name, despite her fellow panel members — Democratic strategist Keith Boykin and Vanderbilt University professor Michael Eric Dyson — politely correcting her.

From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2024

She’d mastered that delicate condescending eyebrow everyone else had, and she deliberately mispronounced the names of stores where she bought her clothes, like the French Tar-Jay, and the German Vahl-Mahrt.

From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi

The criticism began as soon as the film's trailer was shared, with many puzzling over Sundari seemingly mispronouncing her own name.

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2025

He changed his surname in the 1970s, he said, because people kept mispronouncing it.

From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2024

“My real name is ‘Kelss,’” he said on an episode of “Bussin’ With the Boys,” causing a minor uproar with NFL fans worried we had been mispronouncing the name for a decade.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2023

The name Pelé came from him mispronouncing the name of a player called Bilé.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 29, 2022

Doc Brown’s talking about the 1.21 gigawatts needed for time travel, but mispronouncing it “jigawatts,” which always bothered me.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman