Example Sentences

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He changed his surname in the 1970s, he said, because people kept mispronouncing it.

From New York Times • Feb. 23, 2024

The name Pelé came from him mispronouncing the name of a player called Bilé.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 29, 2022

It’s not mispronouncing her name, she is just saying Adele with an Essex accent.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 2, 2022

Not in Philadelphia, where he accomplished the majority of the works in his Hall of Fame career, or in Leeds, Ala., where he must have developed that in-turr-rers-ting way of mispronouncing players’ names.

From Washington Post • Apr. 27, 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