mispronunciation

• “Yeah a slip of the tongue and a mispronunciation is the same as Simple Sarahs blatant ignorance and observation that wars are just another way for politicians to score political points.”

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• “Shakespeare, he regards as an author whose English ought to be corrected; and he became furious over what he called the mispronunciation of "apotheosis," which he said”

  Confessions of a Book-Lover

• “On the other hand the voicemailer who defended Dave this episode, as much as I agree with him that Dave's mispronunciation is just one of Dave's many charms, and as much as I give the voicemailer points for trying to formulate a defence for Dave, got it wrong.”

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• “Supposedly the French enjoyed this native form of music and had it performed often at weddings - thus the word was rumored to be a mispronunciation of the French word "mariage.”

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• “If Tekon kinkurito (the title is a child's mispronunciation of the Japanese words for steel-reinforced concrete) is such a complex, bewildering experience, that may be because it's a variety of timelines being told at the same time, vying for the eye's attention.”

  Critic After Dark

• “The title refers to a mispronunciation of the last name of”

  NYT > Home Page

• “But I find it hard to wrap my mind around the idea that a sentence ending with a preposition, or a "mispronunciation" of nuclear, can arouse that sort of taboo reaction, just like curse words or taking the name of the Lord in vain in appropriate cultural/religious circumstances.”

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• “He has had obvious on-air jitters, mispronouncing "mispronunciation" the first week and stutter-stepping his way through sentences as his brain and mouth worked furiously to stay in sync.”

  Kansas City Star: Front Page

• “She says she suffers from the typical errors committed by Spanish-speakers whose native language is French, such as mispronunciation of 'r's and' j's.”

  thinkSPAIN - The leading English Spanish website

• “If we're really using pronunciation as the barometer of foreign policy depth, then her 'mispronunciation' of General McKiernan as "McClellan" certainly doesn't bode well.”

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