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How to use mispronounce in a sentence
My name was mispronounced my entire childhood, and after a few failed attempts to correct it, I stopped trying.
THE GHOSTS OF OUR MOTELSABAA TAHIRNOVEMBER 29, 2021VOXWhile it’s a name that many mispronounce, it’s also one that’s rapidly rising in the comedy charts.
18 COMICS OF TOMORROWSOHINI DAS GUPTAAUGUST 1, 2021OZYSmith 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.
AFTER STEPHEN A. SMITH’S RANT ABOUT SHOHEI OHTANI, HIS ESPN CO-WORKERS LED THE PUSHBACKBEN STRAUSSJULY 13, 2021WASHINGTON POSTWhen people slightly mispronounce words, our minds auto-correct and we hear the word pronounced correctly.
THIS VISION EXPERIMENT RESOLVED A CENTURIES-OLD PHILOSOPHICAL DEBATE - FACTS SO ROMANTICJIM DAVIESAUGUST 14, 2020NAUTILUSHe’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.”
WHAT TO WATCH FOR IN TENNESSEE’S PRIMARYGEOFFREY SKELLEY (GEOFFREY.SKELLEY@ABC.COM)AUGUST 6, 2020FIVETHIRTYEIGHTTo mispronounce a word because it is misspelt is only indirectly an error of orthoepy.
THE ENGLISH LANGUAGEROBERT GORDON LATHAMThere 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.
LOVE ME LITTLE, LOVE ME LONGCHARLES READEThey acquire a number of new words, which they do not understand and which they persistently mispronounce.
A BOOK OF THE WEST. VOLUME I DEVONS. BARING-GOULDIt is common to hear English-speakers mispronounce the words Buddha and Buddhism.
BUDDHISM, IN ITS CONNEXION WITH BRAHMANISM AND HINDUISM, AND IN ITS CONTRAST WITH CHRISTIANITYSIR MONIER MONIER-WILLIAMSAs if that were not wild enough, they mispronounce it atrociously.
RUGGLES OF RED GAPHARRY LEON WILSONWORDS RELATED TO MISPRONOUNCE
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- gave a black eye
- hit where one lived
- insinuated
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- slapped in the face
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- snubbed
- spattered
- stained
- tore down
- traduced
- vilified
- zinged
- blackening
- blemishing
- blistering
- blotting
- blowing off
- branding
- calumniating
- capping
- chopping
- cutting to the quick
- cutting up
- defaming
- denigrating
- detracting
- discrediting
- disgracing
- dumping on
- giving a black eye
- hitting where one living
- insinuating
- kicking in the teeth
- libelling
- maligning
- miffing
- offending
- pushing
- putting down
- reproaching
- roasting
- scorching
- skin alive
- slandering
- slapping in the face
- slighting
- smearing
- snubbing
- spattering
- staining
- tearing down
- traducing
- vilifying
- zinging
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