mispronounce
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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
“To mispronounce it over and over and over again, it’s like … I just want to answer it fully in French. So it is tricky.”
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 21, 2022
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
He regularly stumbles over and mispronounces words in his public speeches.
From Salon ● Mar. 20, 2026
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
Betty repeatedly mispronounces the name Schlafly throughout the show.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2020
The chairs in his study bear the logo from their alma mater, Yale, which Vic notes the family mispronounces as jail.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
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 response, I tirelessly corrected people who mispronounced my name or purposely tried to assign me another one.
From Salon ● Feb. 22, 2025
In the first roll call, the professor mispronounced her last name as “CHIP-uh-tee.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2024
Another boy performs a cut from a Paul Rudnick play that is dead-on hilarious, but marred just a bit by one mispronounced cultural reference.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
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
"Excuse me, Mrs. Olinski," he said, hesitating slightly, mispronouncing her name.
From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg
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