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- verb Present participle of
mispronounce .
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Examples
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“Nous vous rendons,” concluded the tall one, mispronouncing the French words coarsely and clumsily.
A Raw Youth 2003
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The old man muttered some reply, and Panshin continued in German, mispronouncing the words19
Chapter IV 1917
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The old man muttered some reply, and Panshin continued in German, mispronouncing the words --
A House of Gentlefolk Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev 1850
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Second, I think that there should be something in the country like what Europeans, the Germans, in particular, have, the Sparkasse-and I'm probably mispronouncing the German word.
Democracy Now! 2009
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Second, I think that there should be something in the country like what Europeans, the Germans, in particular, have, the Sparkasse-and I'm probably mispronouncing the German word.
Democracy Now! 2009
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Second, I think that there should be something in the country like what Europeans, the Germans, in particular, have, the Sparkasse-and I'm probably mispronouncing the German word.
Democracy Now! 2009
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Modern Greek is a heavily stressed language, more so even than English – you can get away with mispronouncing a word if you get the stress right; on the other hand, if you pronounce it exactly correctly but get the stress wrong, it will be unintelligible, a verb might be in the wrong tense, etc..
Dipodic Verse : A.E. Stallings : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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Whenever he saw one of the Bohemians, he greeted her by mispronouncing the Czech word for “door.”
The Worst Years of Your Life Mark Jude Poirier 2007
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Bible in one hand and his rattan in the other and walked backward and forward on the floor in front of the desks while the boys read aloud, each boy reading two or three verses; and woe be to any boy who made a mistake, such as mispronouncing a word!
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Ide apologized for "mispronouncing" the president's name.
The News Tribune Blogs newstips@thenewstribune.com (MARK THIESSEN; The As 2010
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