Words similar to mispronounced
Example sentences for: mispronounced
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President Clinton deliberately mispronounced it "Boo-trus, Boo-trus," just to mock him, charges former U.N.
President Bush purposely mispronounced "Saddam Hussein" to annoy the Iraqi leader, while Iraqi newsreaders retaliated by mispronouncing Bush so that, in Arabic, it meant "nothing."
Manufacturers are fond of deforming the spelling of an ordinary word to make it distinctive, for example NU for new, KWIK for quick , or Bonz for bones (unfortunately, this last, a dog food lacking the so-called silent e, is frequently mispronounced).
Mispronounced words: schism (as [skizm] rather than [sizm]).
When one's name is deliberately or even unconsciously misspelled, or when it is knowingly mispronounced, a person perceives it as a slap at his pride.