It is not sufficient to get two words that clink alike, or to torture by mispronunciation a resemblance in sound between words or combinations of words.
With such training, a lad would shrink from a mispronunciation as he does from a false quantity in Latin or Greek.
Heckwelder, argued that it was derived from an Indian mispronunciation of the word /English/.
In saying, however, that the name of the city meant "Hidden," the writer has been misled by the Egyptian mispronunciation of it.
He seems to have been annoyed by mispronunciation of his own and other work: and accordingly he adopts (with full warning and explanation) the plan of invariably doubling the consonant after every short vowel without exception.
But the most striking instance of vowel mispronunciation occurs in respect of the diphthong "ow.
But, in addition to this lack of good-breeding and the gross mispronunciation of common English words, the Australian interlards his conversation with large quantities of slang, which make him frequently unintelligible to the visitor.
Many a word which we meet in the dialects in some unfamiliar shape, can be shown to be no mere vulgar mispronunciation or misspelling, but a genuine old form, once under distinguished patronage in our earlier literature.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mispronunciation" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bull; corruption; fluff; mispronunciation; solecism
