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mispronounce

verb as in lisp

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verb as in slur

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On Tuesday night, David Letterman titled his Top Ten list "Top Ten Ways to Mispronounce Idina Menzel."

To mispronounce a word because it is misspelt is only indirectly an error of orthoepy.

There were two lines in it which I am going to mispronounce; but you are not Scotch, so I don't care for you, uncle, darling.

They acquire a number of new words, which they do not understand and which they persistently mispronounce.

It is common to hear English-speakers mispronounce the words Buddha and Buddhism.

As if that were not wild enough, they mispronounce it atrociously.

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On this page you'll find 15 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to mispronounce, such as: sputter, and stutter.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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