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 here’s a good one: What happens when you mispronounce a menu term?

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 4, 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

“If I mispronounce your name, I apologize,” he said.

From "Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference" by Warren St. John

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

It seems merely an irritating infraction, for instance, that Rose mispronounces Caroline’s name as Carolyn — until you notice Clarke wincing as if struck when it happens.

From New York Times ● Oct. 27, 2021

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

Most clients mispronounced his name—and thus his company’s.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 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

In the first roll call, the professor mispronounced her last name as “CHIP-uh-tee.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2024

“If I purposely mispronounced your name, that would probably not be appropriate,” Boykin tried to explain, before Dyson added, “You’re normalizing that kind of viciousness, man. You’re disrespecting the woman.”

From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2024

“How in the world do you spell that?” he’d asked, and when she told him, he mispronounced it, as most people did.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

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

But even if they were not — if, for example, the person is wholly mispronouncing a word they learned reading — to me, correcting the person is rude.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 16, 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