mispronounce
mis pruh nowns
- v pronounce a word incorrectly
She mispronounces many Latinate words
- The provocative subject matter is sometimes trivialized (gentiles cutely mispronounce Yiddish words); at other times, romanticized.
- To mispronounce the name of Willie Houliston (rhymes with fool us none), national hero and ace center-forward for Scotland, was as bad as manhandling the name of Joe DiMaggio.
- His name itself (approximate pronunciation: Kor-chak Jule-fcttjf-ski) is so big a mouthful that even old friends avoid using it so they won't mispronounce it.