mispronounce

From the back of the crowded Grocery Outlet parking lot, David Swayne heard a pastor he didn’t know mispronounce his sister’s name.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 10, 2026

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 3, 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

“POV: your friend mispronounces a word once and now it’s a national holiday. Happy #itsgonnabemay Day!,”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2024

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

The chairs in his study bear the logo from their alma mater, Yale, which Vic notes the family mispronounces as jail.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

Most clients mispronounced his name—and thus his company’s.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

Comedian Druski mispronounced Smith-Njigba’s name several times when announcing him as the Offensive Player of the Year during the NFL Honors ceremony in February.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026

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

In response, I tirelessly corrected people who mispronounced my name or purposely tried to assign me another one.

From Salon ● Feb. 22, 2025

She’d mastered that delicate condescending eyebrow everyone else had, and she deliberately mispronounced the names of stores where she bought her clothes, like the French Tar-Jay, and the German Vahl-Mahrt.

From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi

Many of the speeches during Monday’s opening night included Harris — some mispronouncing her first name as Ka-MAL-a — as Biden’s governing partner.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2024

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

From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2024

Then there’s Grammy-winning singer Adele, who informed the world in October that her fans have for years been mispronouncing her name.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 6, 2022

But even if they were not — if, for example, the person is wholly mispronouncing a word they learned reading — to me, correcting the person is rude.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 16, 2022

Doc Brown’s talking about the 1.21 gigawatts needed for time travel, but mispronouncing it “jigawatts,” which always bothered me.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman