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Meanings of mispronunciation in English

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Usage of mispronunciation in English
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The name of the paper was named after the battlefield mispronunciation of Ypres.
Reuters
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Several, indeed, had been already detected by some slight error or mispronunciation in attempting it.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12
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Nobody remarked on the mispronunciation of "Pershing" in his final hour.
The warmth of other suns: the epic story of america's great migr...
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And whom they ridiculed habitually for the mispronunciation of words, and for accents unmistakably provincial.
The Heavenly Twins
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Is there nothing but bad grammar, mispronunciation and provincialisms in the heart of the rustic?
Confessions of Boyhood
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By "error" is meant the omission, substitution, transposition, or mispronunciation of one word.
The Measurement of Intelligence / An Explanation of and a Comple...
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It rolled off his lips in a torrent, undefiled by a mispronunciation or a foreign idiom.
Overland: A Novel
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And "Galilee" I understood as a mispronunciation of "gallery."
A New England Girlhood, Outlined from Memory (Beverly, MA)
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He said the mispronunciation of Pacific names was an example of ignoring conversations that involved Pacific Island players.
Radio NZ
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A mispronunciation here, an inappropriate food offer there; a joke, the ramifications of which were not immediately obvious.
The Guardian
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Emerson's continual mispronunciation of his surname didn't seem to bother Panagopolous, but Nefret began to find it unacceptable.
A river in the sky
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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 Ame...
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It was John Travolta's mangled mispronunciation of singer Idina Menzel as Adele Dazeem that got the most chuckles.
The Irish Times
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Perhaps Lough Ia is my mishearing, or the storyteller's mispronunciation of Lough Leath, for there are many Lough
The Celtic Twilight
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Here's consultant and former Auckland City Art Gallery Directory Christopher Johnstone on the issue of mispronunciation and the… Audio
Radio NZ
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He had never got over a youthful mispronunciation, and in an unguarded moment of inspiration it had slipped in.
Without Prejudice
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