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Definition of Mispronouncing
1. mispronounce [v] - See also: mispronounce
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mispronouncing
Literary usage of Mispronouncing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fundamentals of the English Language, Or, Orthography and Orthoepy: Designed by Frank Van Buren Irish (1888)
"mispronouncing. Few errors in language are more common, even among well-educated
people, than the mispronunciation of words. Test yourself on a number of ..."
2. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"The act of mispronouncing. mispronunciation (mis-prô-nun-si-â'shon), ». [< mis-
+ pronunciation.] '. The act of pronouncing incorrectly.— 2. ..."
3. Junior High School Literature by William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck (1920)
"Many of these words you may feel certain you know how to pronounce correctly;
but perhaps you have been mispronouncing some of them. ..."
4. Psychologic Method in Teaching by William Arch McKeever (1909)
"The members of the class arise and read in turn, each one striving to read rapidly
and without mispronouncing a word. After the reader is seated there is a ..."
5. Ohio Educational Monthly by Ohio Education Association (1879)
"We say that there is as much danger of mispronouncing ... if spelled traveler as
there is of mispronouncing regretted if spelled regreted. ..."
6. Teaching to Read by James Laughlin Hughes (1909)
"... that represents his conception and his use of the word; and when corrected he
would learn that he has been in the habit of mispronouncing the word. ..."
7. Every-day Errors of Speech by L. P. Meredith (1874)
"... some of the advance pages of this work: " I am absolutely filled with astonishment
to see how many simple words I have been mispronouncing all my life, ..."
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