| 单词 | mispronounce |
| 释义 | mispronounce (once / 18555 pages) v To mispronounce is to say something incorrectly. It can be pretty awkward when you mispronounce someone's name, especially if you know the person well. Some words are easy to mispronounce, like February, realtor, and meteorology, simply because the sounds don't flow gracefully off the tongue. In other cases, non-native English speakers might mispronounce a word because it doesn't sound at all the way it looks — like tongue, for example. In any case, the verb mispronounce combines the prefix mis-, "wrong or bad," and pronounce, "to utter or say." WORD FAMILYmispronounce: mispronounced, mispronounces, mispronouncing, mispronunciation+/mispronunciation: mispronunciations/pronounce: mispronounce, pronounceable, pronounced, pronouncement, pronounces, pronouncing, pronunciation/pronounceable: unpronounceable/pronounced: pronouncedly/pronouncement: pronouncements/pronunciation: pronunciations/unpronounceable: unpronounceably USAGE EXAMPLES“Friends back home always kind of will shoot me texts or they’ll show me a video of somebody mispronouncing it,” Mariota said. Washington Times(Dec 23, 2016) Here are the top 12 most mispronounced words of 2016, according to the report: Time(Dec 21, 2016) It’s like, he’s just found drugs on you and you’re worrying about the fact that he’s mispronounced the name of an opera! The Guardian(Dec 18, 2016) v pronounce a word incorrectly She mispronounces many Latinate words Syn|Hyper misspeak articulate, enounce, enunciate, pronounce, say, sound out speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way |
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