The teacher always tries hard not to mispronounce names on the first day of school. From LearnThat.org.
Often people in Arabic mispronounce the word Qisas as "qasas" which has a different etymology. From Wordnik.com. [Tuesday, September 30, 2008] Reference
Any parent knows the joy of hearing a child mispronounce a word. From Wordnik.com. [June 2007] Reference
If you've read this far down in the comments then you've seen many examples of the way we "mispronounce" names of Spanish origin. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: PRONUNCIATION WARS IN TEXAS.] Reference
To mispronounce a word would be miscommunication. From Wordnik.com. [Graphic Design Is Not Art] Reference
He's not clumsy, he doesn't mispronounce things. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 20, 2008] Reference
She didn't mispronounce words like CORPSMAN either!. From Wordnik.com. [Palin's note pad.] Reference
Some here still mispronounce his name as "Quintal.". From Wordnik.com. [India prepares for Obama visit] Reference
And nearly every Sunday he would mispronounce the words. From Wordnik.com. [Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two] Reference
Do you realize the way you mispronounce Welsh placenames?. From Wordnik.com. [lazarus Diary Entry] Reference
And I'm sure I'm going to mispronounce this, but Schoi. From Wordnik.com. [Big Babies] Reference
'Come then, sit near me, and correct when I mispronounce.'. From Wordnik.com. [Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte] Reference
CHETRY: And doctor, I don't want to mispronounce your name. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 7, 2007] Reference
I'm sure I'll mispronounce this -- is it Kaethe Schuchter (ph)?. From Wordnik.com. [The Pretender: How Martin Frankel Fooled the Financial World and Led the Feds on One of the Most Publicized Manhunts in History] Reference
No. O'BRIEN: All right, Pablo Galarza -- did I mispronounce that?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Saturday Morning News: How to Protect Tour Investments in a Volatile Market - May 20, 2000] Reference
What is -- and I know I'm going to mispronounce this -- Poujadism?. From Wordnik.com. [The Oxford Companion to Politics of the World] Reference
You can have a pet peeve about people who mispronounce "mascarpone.". From Wordnik.com. ['Equation,' 'Gingerly' And Other Linguistic Pet Peeves] Reference
LAMB: There is another name -- I'm sure I'll mispronounce it -- Hayek. From Wordnik.com. [The Seven Fat Years and How to do it Again] Reference
Even though I'm on YouTube, a lot of people still mispronounce my name. From Wordnik.com. [Jankovic takes quick trip for treatment before semifinals] Reference
They may mispronounce words, or they have trouble -- they have baby talk. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 21, 2003] Reference
LAMB: I'll probably mispronounce it, but you dedicate this book for Kiku?. From Wordnik.com. [Democracy's Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy] Reference
And people mispronounce my name so often, it honestly doesn't bother me a bit. From Wordnik.com. [April 10, 2010 (barely)] Reference
I also like to mispronounce words on purpose to make it sound like something else. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-12-01] Reference
It spelled out ‘new-clear’ so she would not mispronounce nuclear as ‘nucular’. From Wordnik.com. [Why my sofa is the best seat in the House] Reference
It would be difficult to market overseas and foreigners would mispronounce it "Hauteng". From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Maybe I'm wrong on this, but don't a lot of politicians mispronounce the word 'Secretary'?. From Wordnik.com. [Gordon Brown & Rab C Nesbitt] Reference
And do you realize how egregiously you mispronounce the foreign words adopted into English?. From Wordnik.com. [lazarus Diary Entry] Reference
Stacey Honowitz -- excuse me if I mispronounce that -- prosecutor, what about the bar owner?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 08, 2006] Reference
Brigitta sounded closer to Breta, the way a child might mispronounce an older sibling's name. From Wordnik.com. [In the Presence of the Enemy]
His name is certainly the most fun to mispronounce of anyone in politics currently, maybe ever. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Gingold: The Boehn of My Existence] Reference
Were they undergrad pranksters thinking "hee, hee, everybody will mispronounce this, tee, hee"?. From Wordnik.com. [Multicultural Experiences] Reference
And very often they mispronounce the word "cache," as in a secret hiding place, as "cachet" too. From Wordnik.com. [Brooks Peters: Le Mot Juiced] Reference
That they inevitably mispronounce as "pree fee" thinking they're so much cleverer than you or moi. From Wordnik.com. [Brooks Peters: Le Mot Juiced] Reference
But au courant Americans mispronounce it as "La Gren-wheeeee" as if they were on a roller coaster. From Wordnik.com. [Brooks Peters: Le Mot Juiced] Reference
The problem is that pseudophones think they exude a certain "cachet" when they mispronounce words. From Wordnik.com. [Brooks Peters: Le Mot Juiced] Reference
Only now and then did she mispronounce words -- occasionally those with the hard (to her) "th" sound. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Girls on Waters Blue Or the Strange Cruise of the Tartar] Reference
She is now so much at ease with her rugby league guests she feels able to interrupt them mid-flow when they mispronounce words. From Wordnik.com. [Clare Balding the convert is fully tuned in to The Greatest Game] Reference
But the film was panned by critics for its apparent deviation from facts, and for the filmmaker's tendency to mispronounce Chávez's name. From Wordnik.com. [John H. Tucker: Chaos in Caracas: Chavez Says U.S. Hastening Plans to Attack] Reference
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