mispronounce
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Others tended to mispronounce his actual first name.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2024
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
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
She often mispronounces words, but then commits to the mistake, making it amusing.
From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 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
“I mispronounced words in every single read-through, and I was usually mortified,” Holmes said, laughing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 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
My brother and sisters would giggle at our mother’s mispronounced words.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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
Many of the speeches during Monday’s opening night included Harris — some mispronouncing her first name as Ka-MAL-a — as Biden’s governing partner.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2024
He changed his surname in the 1970s, he said, because people kept mispronouncing it.
From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2024
Then there’s Grammy-winning singer Adele, who informed the world in October that her fans have for years been mispronouncing her name.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 6, 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
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