mispronounce
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She also has a speech impairment that causes her to mispronounce certain words, “so she’s always been different,” her mother said.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 9, 2025
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
“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
“Alejo was too hard for people, and teachers would never mispronounce Allen. My second-grade teacher kept calling me ‘Uh-ledge-oh’ until my mother shut it down.”
From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera
Vocabulary lists containing mispronounce
Selection Vocabulary 2, Unit 3
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noun, nunc (declare)
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