enounce, enunciate, pronounce, sound out, articulate, say - speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way; "She pronounces French words in a funny way"; "I cannot say `zip wire'"; "Can the child sound out this complicated word?"
to pronounce (words etc) wrongly. verkeerd uitspreek يُخْطِئ في اللفْظ произнасям грешно pronunciar mal špatně vyslovovat falsch aussprechen udtale forkert προφέρω λαθεμένα pronunciar mal valesti hääldama اشتباه تلفظ کردن ääntää väärin mal prononcer לְבָטֵא לא נָכוֹן गलत उच्चारण करना krivo izgovoriti rosszul ejt ki salah ucap bera rangt fram pronunciare male 発音を誤る 발음을 잘못하다 neteisingai (iš)tarti nepareizi izrunāt salah menyebut verkeerd uitspreken uttale feil źle wymawiać غلط تلفظ dizer mal a pronunţa greşit неправильно произносить zle vyslovovať napačno izgovoriti pogrešno izgovoriti uttala fel ออกเสียงผิด yanlış telâffuz etmek 發音 неправильно вимовляти غلط تلفظ کرنا phát âm sai 发错音
ˈmisproˌnunciˈation (-nansi-) noun
uitspraakfout خَطَأ في اللفْظ грешно произношение pronúncia errada špatná výslovnost falsche Aussprache forkert udtale λαθεμένη προφορά mala pronunciación hääldusviga تلفظ اشتباه virheääntäminen faute de prononciation טָעוּת בַּבִּיטוּי गलत उच्चारण krivi izgovor helytelen/rossz kiejtés kesalahan ucapan rangur framburður errore di pronuncia 誤った発音 잘못된 발음 neteisingas tarimas nepareiza izruna sebutan yang salah verkeerde uitspraak gal uttale zła wymowa ناسم تلفظ pronúncia errada greşeală de pronunţie неправильное произношение zlá výslovnosť napačna izgovorjava loš izgovor feluttal การออกเสียงผิด yanlış telâffuz 發音不正確 неправильна вимова غلط تلفظ sự phát âm sai 发音错误
Among other things, we get to meet his kids who mispronounce words, and hear Tambor talk about the time his mom slipped him a Miltown before his bar mitzvah to combat his anxiety.
But where'er a Scot (or twa or three) Will gather, they still remember me, And the English, when the new year chimes, Will mispronounce my Auld Lang Synes.
Given the politically correct times we live in, a comedy with large doses of sexism and racismwould not get past the commissioning editors now, while seeing a man mispronounce words in a French accent to make them sound rude should not be funny.
By the time I to junior high, I'd heard so many teachers mispronounce my name that I finally just said to family and friends that they could call me "ZZ." There was a sigh of relief, and I've been called ZZ for as long as I can remember.
mispronounce - pronounce a word incorrectly; "She mispronounces many Latinate words"