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- noun Common misspelling of
mispronunciation .
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Examples
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One "mispronounciation" that especially annoys me in New Zealand is "pleece" for police.
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The name is a common American mispronounciation of the term "Gasthaus", but apparently these eggs are known by a dozen or more different names around the world
Gas House Eggs aka TBTAM 2009
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I think I will continue my mispronounciation of the name, but will put more a more explosive quality to the second syllable.
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Mawwiage ... where have I heard that mispronounciation before?.
dailycomic Diary Entry dailycomic 2008
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He is right, but I couldn't go back and edit it properly, so I left in my glaring mispronounciation in, to be listened to for all eternity.
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He is right, but I couldn't go back and edit it properly, so I left in my glaring mispronounciation in, to be listened to for all eternity.
Yale Press Log: 2007
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The phonetic spelling that is a common mispronounciation among racists.
Lean Left » Blog Archive » Confederate Flag Loving, Noose Owning Republican a Racist. Oh, the Shock. 2006
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The fact that it is a mispronounciation of “get” may or may not be relevant.
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'Yes; but for heaven's sake pronounce it with a V, and not a W, and in two syllables instead of three,' Arthur answered, pettishly, his ear offended as it always was with a discordant sound or mispronounciation.
Tracy Park Mary Jane Holmes 1866
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The British mispronounciation of "garage" is probably to make it sound more like like "storage", which is not from French roots.
Wired Campus 2010
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