| 单词 | mispronunciation |
| 例句 | I grip my hands tightly together and wait to see how Mama reacts to this mispronunciation. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z But a mispronunciation, SKIZZ-em, became so common that it’s now standard English and preferred by most people. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Don’t say huh-MODJ-uh-nus, a mispronunciation no doubt influenced by the word homogenized or the less familiar homogenous. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I expected a nasal monotone, riddled with mispronunciations. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z That had been cute when she was a kid, but she had outgrown Chip's constant mispronunciation of her name. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Any child who has suffered mispronunciations or schoolyard rebranding will embrace this book. Word Up! Three Picture Books and a Graphic Novel Celebrate the Power and Joy of Language 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z There were teleprompter fails and missed cues and mispronunciations and so much schmaltz that we were treated to performances of both “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” AND “Wind Beneath My Wings.” Oscar’s 10 most memorable moments 2014-03-03T13:30:00Z Between our mispronunciation of the Italian for “pizza with no toppings” and the waiters’ misinterpretation of the phrase, what we got was tripe stew with sheep cheese. What I Did On My Summer Vacation 2012-09-07T15:28:43Z A ruthless leader whose name sounds like a mispronunciation of a popular French Canadian dish. Update Ukraine: Safe to Travel? Yes. In the title story, for example, the schoolgirl narrator defies attempts to shame her mispronunciations and shabby clothes while she simultaneously tries to protect her parents from similar ridicule. Review | In ‘How to Pronounce Knife,’ stories of Lao immigrants reveal everyday moments of racism, classism, power and privilege 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z The producers’ efforts to tip their hat to the place resulted in some comedic mispronunciations of locales like Lake Chelan. "Frasier" ended perfectly. Why go back? 2023-10-13T04:00:00Z My funniest mispronunciation that makes my little sister laugh is when mom calls us to tell us how worried she is that a tsunami will hit Seattle someday. It's time to Party In The U.S.A. for 'American Idol' hopeful Crystal Bowersox 2010-03-24T15:02:00Z Dhikilo knows almost nothing of her war-torn birthplace, except that it’s an actual region and not, as so many kindly White people keep telling her, a mispronunciation of Somalia. Review | Michel Faber’s ‘D’ is a quirky adventure for readers young and old 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z The charm of her mispronunciation mattered more to me. Sheryl Crow’s tumor damage control 2012-06-06T15:40:00Z Tell us if you get rather more agitated when you hear other mispronunciations. Robert Moog rhymes with 'vogue': mispronunciations that annoy you 2012-05-23T09:50:54Z That meant complex wordplay and ambiguities created through deliberate mispronunciation. The Hidden History of Japan’s Folk-Rock Boom 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z Twitter users soon jumped all over Lawson, with some mocking her mispronunciation, and others vowing to adopt the mispronunciation deliberately. Nigella Lawson responds to scrutiny over her pronunciation of the word 'microwave' 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z For starters, outsiders call it “Appal-AY-sha,” a mispronunciation that hurts our ears. Read Your Way Through Appalachia 2023-08-09T04:00:00Z The decision to have the nominees’ names read in prerecorded voice-overs may have saved time, and reduced the possibility of gaffes and mispronunciations by the presenters. The Emmys Joked about TV’s Lack of Diversity, and Then Demonstrated It 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z A mispronunciation of a name is the least of their problems. Oliver Stone and Tariq Ali: brothers in arms 2010-07-26T20:31:00Z The name of the paper was named after the battlefield mispronunciation of Ypres. Michael Palin joins WWI drama in first acting role in 15 years 2013-07-02T11:15:32Z Unable to decipher my mispronunciation, he finally shrugged and walked away. “You are not just an affair”: I fell for the world’s oldest romantic cliché — being human 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z Isaacs committed the mispronunciation while reading aloud the list of cinematography nominees. Oscars 2015: Academy president commits 'Dick Poop' gaffe 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z A few weeks ago, he was selected as part of XXL magazine’s annual Freshmen list; on the magazine’s cover, he wore a T-shirt with several mispronunciations of his name. Meet Aminé, a Joyful Rapper With an Eye on Politics 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z During a recent performance at the Troubadour in West Hollywood, the mispronunciations circulating around the historic venue included "moo," "mew" and "mo." Danish songstress MO ready to break out in America 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z The tapestry of our mispronunciations help make the word go round, right? Potato, puh-tah-toe: Inside the wide world of mispronounced foods 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z The title of Sebastián Silva’s film “Tyrel” comes from a momentary mispronunciation of the African-American protagonist’s name, but it speaks to the simmering discomfort summoned by this agonizingly dead-on cringe comedy-drama. ‘Tyrel’ Review: Drowning in a Whirlpool of Drunken Dudes 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z He found his children’s early attempts at speech hilarious, and he held onto our garbled words, encouraging the mispronunciations. Fart is a four-letter word: The adolescent language fixation which shaped our love lives 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z In this situation, an actor’s mispronunciation on opening night of Kalashnikov, the Russian-made rifle, was just another bit of unreality. Good acting can’t save ‘Now Comes the Night’ at 1st Stage 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z In just two seasons, Braun has slid seamlessly and un-self-consciously into Greg’s blundering fish-out-of-water rhythms, whether he is excusing the mispronunciation of his own name or stammering his way through a U.S. How the ‘Succession’ Star Nicholas Braun Elevates Cousin Greg 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z In an interlude that added some levity, she proposed the addition of a new vowel to the English language, so as to prevent the mispronunciation of words like “namaste.” La MaMa Moves! Remains a Freewheeling Home for Dance 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z I am going to make fun of mispronunciations. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Leading the fight against mispronunciations 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z Using neural networks, they created many different models, which varied in the sophistication of their knowledge of conversational topics, grammar, and children's mispronunciations. How adults understand what kids are saying 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z He showed how a program called Reading Coach captured video of a student reading a passage aloud and flagged mispronunciations, with an automated voice declaring, "These words were the most challenging for you." “We’re huge in learning loss!” Cashing in on the post-pandemic education crisis 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z More recently lawmakers, broadcasters and much of the general public have cast out those mispronunciations as part of a concerted national effort to say the names correctly. Why Every Women’s World Cup City Has Two Names 2023-07-16T04:00:00Z Then they fed Irish Alexa’s speech model more recorded voice data to correct the mispronunciation. How Amazon Taught Alexa to Speak in an Irish Brogue 2023-07-01T04:00:00Z Biden displayed unusual agility in his responses, although he had some of his customary problems with mispronunciation and slightly slurred speech. State of the Union: Biden faces hecklers on a rough night for Kevin McCarthy 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z Because it was the mispronunciation of that surname that would inspire the nickname of the great tap-dancing Richmond native Bill “Bojangles” Robinson. Perspective | The secret history of the French hat maker who gave Bojangles his name 2023-02-04T05:00:00Z He was known as Dico by his family, but the neighborhood kids called him Pelé, mimicking his mispronunciation of the name of his favorite player, a Brazilian goalkeeper known as Bile. Pele, Brazilian soccer player scored unprecedented number of goals through daring runs, blistering shots, has died 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z Putin’s mispronunciations “were not seen as, ‘he’s an old man, who forgets names.’ Setbacks in Ukraine war diminish Russia’s clout with regional allies 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z Their jokes ranged from comic riffs on being questioned by Israeli border guards to puns stemming from mispronunciations of Arabic by people growing up straddling their twin Palestinian and American identities. Healing with humour, Palestinian comedians strike a chord in occupied cities 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z Conservatives also snickered, with some also noting her mispronunciation of “bodegas” as “bogedas” with some very English vowels. Jill Biden ripped for use of ethnic stereotype to relate to Hispanics: ‘We are not tacos’ 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z According to the study, participants are hesitant to confront colleagues over “awkward” situations like a stain on a co-worker’s shirt, food in their teeth, or a mispronunciation of someone’s name. Study: Americans want the feedback they fear to give others 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z People with roots in New Orleans told me they called the fruits “misbeliefs,” a local mispronunciation of the Italian term for them, nespoli. Column: In diverse Southern California, loquats are the real fruit MVPs 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z Reasons for the errors were not given, but were likely to be things such as mispronunciation or spelling errors. Rescuers question what3words' use in emergencies 2021-05-31T04:00:00Z Reading Progress works by allowing students to record themselves reading a passage of text, and offering teachers the ability to assess accuracy rates, mispronunciations, and more. Microsoft Teams’ new reading feature helps students during the pandemic and beyond 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z Nelson has joked with witnesses at times and, perhaps to connect with the jury, made light of his occasional fumbles with technology or mispronunciations of words. For Chauvin’s trial attorney, it’s all about raising doubt 2021-04-11T04:00:00Z By naming me Linda, my parents hoped they were conferring an easy American life upon me, a life free of mispronunciations and mistakes. Celebrate Your Name Day. It’s Like a Birthday, but Better. 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z Sometimes the mispronunciation is driven by hostility; sometimes it’s familiarity and habit. San Pedro, Los Feliz, even Los Angeles: Why do we pronounce our place names this way? 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z Combined with mispronunciation and the use of plurals, there was a big margin of error, he said. Rescuers question what3words' use in emergencies 2021-05-31T04:00:00Z Apparently Ms. Harris also answered a question about her desires as a young girl at a civil-rights march with a mispronunciation of the same word. Kamala Harris’ ‘Fweedom’ story mirrors MLK account 2021-01-04T05:00:00Z His campaign has called it an innocent mispronunciation. Before embracing America-first agenda, David Perdue was an outsourcing expert 2021-01-01T05:00:00Z A mispronunciation of his name was the subject of a viral meme on social media this year. Fauci, Kamala among famous names on mispronounced words list 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z Some people wield mispronunciation like a weapon, trying to belittle me. Opinion | Why I feel insulted when Trump mispronounces Kamala Harris’s name 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z But the same tendency can be seen in smaller forms, like the frequent mispronunciations of her name and descriptions of her as inauthentic. Kamala Harris and the ‘Double Bind’ of Racism and Sexism 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z But mispronunciations have been rampant in the days since the California senator became the first Black woman and the first Asian American woman named to a major party’s ticket. Democrats see racism in GOP mispronunciations of ‘Kamala’ 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z "To penalise him on a... well it wasn't even a mispronunciation. So that's why I said in my video - I'm going to back this guy." Tony Hadley, a radio quiz, and a $10,000 riddle 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z “What I found amusing was the wide variance in the mispronunciations — how many different ways people were absolutely mutilating his name, sometimes not even getting a single syllable correct,” Mr. Nemo said via email. America Has Had a Year to Learn How to Say Buttigieg. And Yet. 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z Senate with Harris, said after the rally that his mispronunciation was unintentional. Opinion | Why I feel insulted when Trump mispronounces Kamala Harris’s name 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z There followed a montage of moments from that night, in which Brown gave verbal suggestions, sometimes via subtle mispronunciations or non sequiturs, that we had apparently absorbed subconsciously. How Derren Brown Remade Mind Reading for Skeptics 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z “It happens all the time,” Valdes-Scantling said this week about the mispronunciation. Say his name: Rookie WR Valdes-Scantling on rise for Packers 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z “I don’t mind mispronunciation at all. What I do love is just effort, whether you nail it or not.” No ‘Foreign’ Names for Children, Dear Abby Advised. Furious Parents Replied. 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z And a New York Times writer compared Trump's reported mispronunciations of countries' names to a Simpsons episode: Analysis | The Daily 202: By overturning ballot initiatives, more lawmakers are rejecting the will of their voters 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z Here is a selection of people's mispronunciation stories. 'That is not how you say my name' 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z Now, after reading Gene Weingarten’s March 4 Washington Post Magazine column, “See something, say something,” I wonder if it was simply the start of an even more egregious mispronunciation. Opinion | Either way, this was a bad sign 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z But by the time the movie invokes the gorgeously doleful Portuguese concept of saudade, the Hail Mary pass is as futile as the term's mispronunciation is glaring. Jon Hamm, Catherine Keener and others can't move past 'Nostalgia's' treacly musings 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z I’d make fun of his mispronunciation of words, or when he would get the lyrics to songs wrong. My brother’s punch in the face shocked me out of alcoholism | Darren McGarvey 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z Readers rave about help on burning bus, rant about Link mispronunciation. Rant & Rave: Thanks for alert that bus was on fire 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z Now in its eighth season, the show consistently milks Gloria’s mispronunciations and botched idiomatic expressions for laughs. It’s time to end the tired awards show jokes at Sofia Vergara’s expense 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z English mispronunciation, of course, happens in many languages that don’t use the Roman alphabet, but the list of foul-ups by foreigners relying on the confusing Korean system is long. Always mangle Korean names? It might not be your fault 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z Typically Mr. Cornish says he ignores the mispronunciation and focuses on using the word incorrectly himself “so that I do not sound condescending and smug all at once.” You’re Saying It Wrong: Design Words That’ll Trip You Up 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z Any mispronunciation is likely to stir the language scolds, as they learned after a recent episode on the Chinese underground city of Dixia Cheng. ‘Stuff You Should Know’ about the two podcasters who riff on voodoo, body hair, the electoral college 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z The name Macau is said to be a Portuguese mispronunciation of a Cantonese temple in honor of the goddess of seafarers that sits at the peninsula’s rocky tip. Portugal's Euro 2016 Success Delights Former Colony Macau 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z Mr. Boehner, who cracked jokes about mispronunciations of his name and his well-known tendency to shed sentimental tears, sounded deeply relieved to be out of the fray. John Boehner Endorses Fellow Ohioan John Kasich 1463-10-31T05:00:00Z “Jeopardy!” was a particularly challenging speech synthesis problem for IBM’s researchers because although the answers were short, there were a vast number of possible mispronunciation pitfalls. Creating a Computer Voice That People Like 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z The same is true for chaise longue: While it is pronounced shezz lawng, the fact that it is a chair with lengthened leg rest leads to its mispronunciation as chase lounge. You’re Saying It Wrong: Design Words That’ll Trip You Up 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z His meandering remarks failed to impress the group, but were most notable for his mispronunciation of the name Hamas, the militant Palestinian movement. From Jordan to Hummus, Looking Back at Ben Carson’s Tough Week 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z Get ready to enjoy two weeks worth of mispronunciations. 2015 U.S. Open Results 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z Actually she was just giggling at her mispronunciation of a word. Offbeat moments from the campaign trail - BBC News 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z Even one of the movie’s more gently amusing bits, Mike’s serial mispronunciation of words like “exploit” and “imperative,” is run into the ground. Review: ‘Unfinished Business’ should never have started 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z Real-estate agents say the most frequent mispronunciations they encounter concern the names of landmarks and places. You’re Saying It Wrong: Design Words That’ll Trip You Up 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z This joke on the mispronunciation of the word “park” — and its associated lesson on “p” and “b” sounds — fell flat without the students being able to see how my lips differentiated the two sounds. How To Improve Educational Opportunities For Saudi Women 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z At tournaments such as the United States Open, with a field represented by dozens of nationalities, mispronunciations of players’ names are nearly a certainty. 2015 U.S. Open Results 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z Even a short lapse, tiny factual error or passing garbled mispronunciation will entrench underlying fears about Perry's intellectual capacity for the job. The Limits of Rick Perry's Rebirth 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z One of Bishop's key routines is about the mispronunciations of his surname. Où est le punchline? The art of standup in a second language 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z It’s gracious to let small mispronunciations, name mix-ups, or inconsequential slips go. Five Communication Traits That Turn People Off 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z Many in the media were quick to report on Obama’s mispronunciation of the term. Obama Takes a Stand in the Great GIF Wars 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z I’m sure that addressing parents as Mom or Dad began with good intentions, or a desire to eliminate the risk of mispronunciation or misidentification. Motherlode Blog: Please Don’t Call Me Mom 2014-03-14T19:47:50Z Chris, or as he liked to sometimes sign off, Krees, mischievously echoing the mispronunciation of his name by Persian and Arabic speakers, was the diplomatic equivalent of Indiana Jones. The Diplomatic Indiana Jones 2012-09-13T17:39:00Z Material on mispronunciation, therefore, is a knife-edge, and requires especially precise pronunciation for it to work. Où est le punchline? The art of standup in a second language 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z “Right after the mispronunciation, our Web site crashed” because of heavy traffic. Prototype: Renaming a Company Can Be Smart - Prototype 2012-08-04T18:22:33Z Stanton can take solace in the fact that another slugging right fielder had to deal with mispronunciations of a more sinister kind. When Game Changers Become Name Changers 2012-03-02T03:02:26Z Greenbacks are so common south of the frontier that in some neighbourhoods peso coins are known as cuoras, a mispronunciation of “quarters”. Mexico?s plunging peso: ?Arriba, arriba! 2011-12-08T16:17:06Z “It was a repeated pattern of misuse of the language or mispronunciation of the language that we were looking for,” said Andrew LeFevre, a spokesman for the State Department of Education. In Arizona, Complaints That an Accent Can Hinder a Teacher?s Career 2011-09-24T20:07:32Z But the most striking instance of vowel mispronunciation occurs in respect of the diphthong "ow." The Awful Australian 2011-08-11T02:00:14.850Z An error that had happened, a mispronunciation, a provincialism of some actor, such were the weighty points by which they held fast, beyond which they could not pass. Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) 2011-06-22T02:00:23.137Z Tess overlooked this mispronunciation, knowing it was useless to object, and turned the subject by saying: “Or maybe we’ll see those Gypsies.” The Corner House Girls Among the Gypsies How They Met, What Happened, and How It Ended 2011-06-14T02:00:19.837Z It is certain that the selection led to mispronunciations and misconceptions on the part of the general public. Toronto of Old 2011-02-10T03:00:45.907Z But his Sotomayor mispronunciation is probably less important than his support for her nomination, which was opposed by Rubio and Crist — or as Meek calls them, Republican Right and Republican Lite. How Florida's Forgotten Democrat Could Win the Senate Race 2010-06-04T08:05:00Z But, in addition to this lack of good-breeding and the gross mispronunciation of common English words, the Australian interlards his conversation with large quantities of slang, which make him frequently unintelligible to the visitor. The Awful Australian 2011-08-11T02:00:14.850Z No lessons in elocution, no change of climate, can eradicate the deep-seated mischief of its mispronunciation in a Cockney whose years of pupilarity have been passed on the spot of his birth. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 Moreover, by this means the master, who is supposed to keep track of the babel of sound, is instantly able to detect any mispronunciation and correct it in the bud. Village Life in China A Study in Sociology Their patience and eagerness in trying to correct a mispronunciation were touching. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 2 I have only heard you make one mispronunciation. Reminiscences, 1819-1899 A sentence containing all the vowels may be chanted repeatedly on a monotone, but after all the best exercise consists in constant watchfulness against mispronunciation in the ordinary weekly practice. The Boy's Voice A Book of Practical Information on The Training of Boys' Voices For Church Choirs, &c. When introduced early in the 18th century it was as a trisyllable co-co-a, a mispronunciation of cacao or cocoa, the Spanish adaptation from the Mexican cacauatl. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" Ruth and Agnes did not chide the little one for50 her mispronunciation of the hard word this time, but they looked at each other seriously. The Corner House Girls in a Play How they rehearsed, how they acted, and what the play brought in Where I went to school, we had a droll lad, whose humour developed itself in mispronunciation. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. II) The metre is satisfactory, but the humor is somewhat strained, and the pun in the last line based on a mispronunciation of the old Indian's name. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 Sometimes one is tempted to look on dialect as expressing simply the pathos of provincialisms, but there is more in it than mere mispronunciation. A Critic in Pall Mall Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies Dolf rather missed her play upon his mispronunciation of the word, but he gave another magnificent flourish. A Noble Woman You're the snob, not I. There's just as much snobbery in sticking to mispronunciation as there is in being correct. In a Little Town The name of a well-known place in London illustrates both these changes: Convent Garden becomes Covent Garden by mispronunciation; it becomes Common Garden by intentional change. Notes and Queries A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc But the new-comer is not aware of certain subtle dangers which exist, quite apart from mispronunciation, or wrong tenses and genders, or words misapplied. India and the Indians It only became familiar when the virtues of Christians had shed lustre upon it, and when alike in its true form, and in the ignorant mispronunciation "Chrestians," it readily lent itself to valuable allegorical meanings. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03 The baby words and individual mispronunciations which are taken up by a family and its friends, but never get further, show us how dialects grow. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals A grammarian of imperial Rome named Probus compiled, about the 3rd or 4th century, A.D., a list of cautions as to mispronunciation. The Romance of Words (4th ed.) Their public-school accent, with its vile mispronunciation of the English tongue, would have carried them into the inner circles of any European chancellery. Nights in London Mrs. Stott had a carefully cultivated mispronunciation of great elegance when she wished to be impressive, and as soon as she began Wallie realized that something portentous was about to be imparted to him. The Dude Wrangler Kenzie several times returned the mispronounced word, pronounced as it should be, with an emphasis which could not be misunderstood: yet the mispronunciation was persisted in. The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1 One should not permit slovenly expressions, or slang, or the thousand and one faults of mispronunciation and ungrammatical construction into which people fall, to be characteristic of one's speaking. The Etiquette of To-day Impossible to rectify your mispronunciation without a substantial increase of the original sum of the bargain. Riviera Towns Cuyaba," he replied, rolling his tongue with considerable relish round his unconscious mispronunciation of the name, "is a town almost on the western or Bolivian border of Brazil. A Bid for Fortune or Dr. Nikola's Vendetta Sometimes, where the fun is no worse than childish, it is childish enough—plays on words, jokes on English mispronunciation of French, and so forth. The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) When the originals are available it seems to me pedantic and academic to put into print the comic mispronunciations of well-known words by old and uneducated seamen. The Shanty Book, Part I, Sailor Shanties By “error” is meant the omission, substitution, transposition, or mispronunciation of one word. The Measurement of Intelligence An Explanation of and a Complete Guide for the Use of the Stanford Revision and Extension of the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale There was a stir when the shoonoon saw him, and he heard his name, in its usual native mispronunciation, repeated back and forth. Oomphel in the Sky He had never had musical instruction; he spoke of soprano as "tribble," of alto as "counter," and of baritone as "bear-tone"—a mispronunciation that had given him his nickname. A Busy Year at the Old Squire's If, however, the sense of the words be not entirely lost by this mispronunciation, the sacrament is complete. Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Is there nothing but bad grammar, mispronunciation and provincialisms in the heart of the rustic? Confessions of Boyhood Whole paragraphs had to be read until Martha could read them without a halt or a mispronunciation, and then committed to memory with the "Run" button held down. The Fourth R The homely old Turks are ignorant of the uses of sugar; and it would seem that their language does not supply a descriptive term, as their "shuk-kar" is evidently a mispronunciation of our word. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 The peasants, hearing him call the domicile Linterno, corrupted the word into Inferno, and, from this mispronunciation, the place was often jocularly called by that name. The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch If nothing more, he would beware of mispronunciation. Public Speaking She was watching her pupil, storing up in her memory the mispronunciations and vulgarisms for later insinuative improvement. The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes The word Klondike is said to be a mispronunciation of the Indian words "thron dak" or "duick," which means "plenty of fish," from the fact that the Klondike is a famous salmon stream. The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 41, August 19, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls In saying, however, that the name of the city meant "Hidden," the writer has been misled by the Egyptian mispronunciation of it. Patriarchal Palestine Sometimes one is tempted to look on dialect as expressing simply the pathos of provincialisms, but there is more in it than mere mispronunciations. Reviews Alarum for alarm, is merely a corruption produced by mispronunciation. Notes and Queries, Number 46, September 14, 1850 So sacred were its words, that a single mispronunciation of them was sufficient to impair the efficacy of the service. Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations "Yes," I answered, "and no doubt because of this we often make mistakes which are more serious than mispronunciation of your modern names." The Song of our Syrian Guest Men of profound sense encourage her to chatter nonsense for their amusement, just as we delight in the tottering steps and stammering mispronunciations of a golden-haired child. Pink and White Tyranny A Society Novel It rolled off his lips in a torrent, undefiled by a mispronunciation or a foreign idiom. Overland When the Athenian audience hissed a public speaker for a mispronunciation, it did not follow that any one of the malcontents could pronounce as well as the orator. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 54, April, 1862 I don’t wish to limit his acquirements: still, he has no right to appropriate what is mine, and make it ridiculous to me with his vile mistakes and mispronunciations! Wuthering Heights Several, indeed, had been already detected by some slight error or mispronunciation in attempting it. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12 And whom they ridiculed habitually for the mispronunciation of words, and for accents unmistakably provincial. The Heavenly Twins It will show that you have called, and if friends are at home, will prevent any confusion from mispronunciation of your name by the servant. Frost's Laws and By-Laws of American Society A condensed but thorough treatise on etiquette and its usages in America, containing plain and reliable directions for deportment in every situation in life. He pronounced the last words as they are spelt, not because he did not know better, but because he liked to be amusing, and the mispronunciation of words was the kind of fun he appreciated. Mrs. Day's Daughters But due to mispronunciation the mental bomb acted as a boomerang and killed the demon. Autobiography of a Yogi Like many other emigrants, they yielded, in the course of a generation or two, to a barbarous mispronunciation of their patronymic, which came to be spoken of as if spelt "Malmsey." Archibald Malmaison Many long-standing prepossessions are as hard to be corrected as a long-standing mispronunciation, against which the direct experience of eye and ear is often powerless. Impressions of Theophrastus Such He had never got over a youthful mispronunciation, and in an unguarded moment of inspiration it had slipped in. Without Prejudice "What?" asked Mavis, whose ears had caught the mispronunciation. Sparrows: the story of an unprotected girl A deliberate misspelling and mispronunciation of verbiage that assimilates it to the word `garbage'. The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 And "Galilee" I understood as a mispronunciation of "gallery." A New England girlhood, outlined from memory (Beverly, MA) Now in this sense we may truly say that we are not conscious of ordinary speech, though we are commonly roused to attention by the misuse or mispronunciation of a word. Cratylus The false form drove out the more correct, probably through a mispronunciation, based on a wrong derivation, at some date long ago. Anabasis |
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