Example sentences for: mispronunciation

How can you use “mispronunciation” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The tongue hoisted itself up and bothered to put in an unnecessary r . Wouldn't Sam Ridge, then, be just plain mispronunciation?

  • Is it Slurvian or is it wondrous mispronunciation?

  • Like “sparrow grass,” “calvary” for cavalry , one of Mr. Lederer's questionable examples of Slurvian, falls midway between pure mispronunciation and misunderstood expression, perpetuated by a massive misuse.

  • Elaborate taxonomies and obscure explanations such as mispronunciation due to ignorance, malapropisms based on both ignorance and misunderstanding, and, for the dictated word, the technological dyslexia of typographical errors and poor grasp of the diction of the dictators of medical histories may be suggested.

  • Eliot's--an entry that runs on for two and a half pages), the name of just one Yiddish theatrical figure, Boris Tomashefsky , Hebrew literary works ( Zohar ), nonce formations ( money/shmoney , which takes up two pages), misspelled place names to indicate mispronunciation ( BRANzvil , for Brownsville , a section of Brooklyn), Yiddish words that are never used in English ( FUHLKStimlech `folksy,' guht `God,' ich starb `I'm dying'), encyclopedic terms ( black Jews ), and nonexistent words ( who-er “defined’ by the author as “Not exactly Yiddish, but the New Yorkish pronunciation of whore’).


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