mispronounce

Others tended to mispronounce his actual first name.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2024

We all stumble over and mispronounce words occasionally.

From Salon ● Mar. 7, 2024

The findings also suggest that when listening to children, adult listeners incorporate expectations of how children commonly mispronounce words, such as "weed" for "read."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2023

“And the cheer for Musl— we cheer for Muslim athletes, like Kareem Al-J—Al-J— Abdul-Jabbar. I know him, and I did mispronounce his name.”

From Washington Times ● May 5, 2023

It was a short list, but still I managed to mispronounce IBM and assign the wrong gender to both the floor waxer and the typewriter.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

For example, in the Sally Bundock video, the "presenter" mispronounces 15 as "fife-teen", as well as oddly pronouncing project as "pro-ject".

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2023

Biden mispronounces Jon Ossoff's name at Georgia rally in latest gaffe President-elect Joe Biden butchered the name of Georgia Democratic Senate hopeful John Ossoff during an election event Tuesday ahead of the crucial runoff races.

From Fox News ● Dec. 16, 2020

From the books' title, there's the young girl who mispronounces "knife" in class because that's how her father sounds it out.

From Salon ● Apr. 7, 2020

At one point Smith mispronounces “Second Avenue,” interrupting to correct herself and note the difference between Second and Seventh Avenues in 1967.

From New York Times ● Nov. 16, 2018

They both went to school in the States, Papi to Yale, which poor Mami always mispronounces “jail.”

From "Before We Were Free" by Julia Alvarez

The former governor repeatedly mispronounced Mr. Mamdani’s name during the campaign—enough so that his opposition made content out of it that went viral.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2025

The uniforms are generic camouflage ones easily bought online, while the Ukrainian words are heavily mispronounced and spoken with a strong Russian accent.

From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2025

Before George Takei broke out with his role on “Star Trek” and became a cultural icon, his last name was often mispronounced.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2025

A panel discussion veered off course when Mace adamantly mispronounced Harris’ name, despite her fellow panel members — Democratic strategist Keith Boykin and Vanderbilt University professor Michael Eric Dyson — politely correcting her.

From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2024

Another boy performs a cut from a Paul Rudnick play that is dead-on hilarious, but marred just a bit by one mispronounced cultural reference.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove

He got the name of the mayor, Zohran Mamdani, wrong, mispronouncing it in a different way every time he said it.

From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026

Taiwan had such a low profile then that when I told people my family is from Taiwan, most just assumed I was mispronouncing Thailand.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2024

He changed his surname in the 1970s, he said, because people kept mispronouncing it.

From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2024

It wasn’t his only mistake of the night: Malukas was scolded by McLaughlin for mispronouncing his last name.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 21, 2022

"Excuse me, Mrs. Olinski," he said, hesitating slightly, mispronouncing her name.

From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg