What's the difference between mispronounce and misspeak?
Mispronounce
Definition:
(v. t. & i.) To pronounce incorrectly.
Example Sentences:
(1) There is also a scene where the Kids Kardashian chant their last name when they hear it mispronounced (for the last time ever) on national television.
(2) But even if most of us would forgive a friend for mispronouncing the name of a central Asian republic, remember this man is the US secretary of state.
(3) In his speech, Carson repeatedly mispronounced the name of the Palestinian militant group Hamas, calling it “hummus” on several occasions as he seemed to give a basic history lesson of the Middle East, reciting every war in the region since 1947.
(4) But he will have to work a bit harder at his Burmese before Monday's trip to Rangoon, as he mispronounced Aung San Suu Kyi's name twice while discussing her role in promoting democracy in the former pariah nation.
(5) In Experiment 2, young children's picture recognition, mispronunciation detection, and vocabulary monitoring performance all varied systematically with these AOA estimates and with a stimulus-type (intact-mispronounced) manipulation.
(6) The 67-year-old former Ireland international – previously most notable on Tyneside for swearing profusely at journalists – not only announced the news ahead of an official statement from the club but gave a remarkable radio interview in which he mispronounced the names of several players – Cabaye was called Yohan Kebab – and claimed credit for signing the goalkeeper Tim Krul, who had in fact been recruited by Graeme Souness.
(7) "Intact" and "mispronounced" responses were collected for isolated words with or without a picture referent (Experiment 1) and for words in constraining or unconstraining sentences (Experiment 2).
(8) John Travolta has apologised for his already-legendary Oscar-night fluff when he mispronounced the name of Frozen star Idina Menzel as he introduced her performance of Let It Go, the song that would go on to win the Oscar for best song.
(9) A series of experiments examined listeners' ability to detect mispronounced words in a short story.
(10) Some people are even joking that the girl who mispronounces chimp is the true murderer at the centre of the podcast’s investigation.
(11) ("Mitchell" is a pretty inconspicuous surname anyway; I'm fond of my curious birth name that people mispronounce and spell as "Cohen" one email in three.)
(12) Which words do you mispronounce, and which common mispronunciations do you think we should resign ourselves to?
(13) Did the woman who mispronounces Mail Chimp in the sponsor’s advert do it?
(14) He first asked Murdoch if he knew what the mafia was (which, unsurprisingly, he found rather an odd question) and went on to suggest that News International executives were bound by the mafia code of silence known as omertà , which he unfortunately mispronounced, putting the emphasis on the middle syllable.
(15) Teachers made one-third of referrals to Prevent strategy in 2015 Read more The legal duty has divided opinion, and high-profile cases in which children have been referred for minor misunderstandings – such as mispronouncing the word “cucumber” – have created a sense that some schools are too quick to refer students under Prevent.
(16) They use the street and gang slang heard in tough neighbourhoods with large immigrant origin populations, plus mispronounced Arabic words, with a scattering of poorly understood religious phrases referring to poorly understood Islamic concepts.
(17) Last year’s bash was memorable only for the fact the host mispronounced the winner James Blake’s name as James Blunt, so clearly there is room for improvement here.
(18) He was said to be wont to mispronounce obscure place names in extravagant ways.
(19) 48 subjects shadowed a prose passage in which the word initial consonant of 14 two-syllable words was altered by either mispronouncing or deleting it.
(20) Detection was assessed by presenting listeners with normal paragraphs and with paragraphs each containing a single occurrence of a missed word, an inappropriate pause, or a mispronounced word.
Misspeak
Definition:
(v. i.) To err in speaking.
(v. t.) To utter wrongly.
Example Sentences:
(1) Jeb Bush didn’t misspeak – he told the rest of America what Florida women have known for years, which is that he doesn’t believe women’s health is worth much,” said Devon Kearns, a spokeswoman for the group.
(2) We’ve had several ministers misspeaking about metadata.
(3) Even if you think the Twitter storms about political “misspeaks” and “gaffes” are fatuous, consider what you did not hear after the PM’s outburst last week.
(4) But for Jewish people to be so quick to be thin-skinned is not good either, and is in danger of seeming coercive.Baddiel’s throwaway parenthesis on Israel’s being “deemed the nutcase pariah-state du jour”, is frankly disreputable, and gives the impression that he is “playing the antisemitism card” with more in mind than the banal misspeakings of a few footballers.
(5) Sugar, 62, is not a man for weighing his words carefully, fearful of the repercussions of "misspeaking".
(6) Memories are false, people misspeak, they are misunderstood, mistakes are repeated until they are unmoored from the original and turn into concrete evidence for conspiracy nuts.
(7) Spokesperson Katrina Pierson told CNN his initial comments were a “simple misspeak” and said Trump did not support penalising women for having abortions, even if they were illegal.
(8) Mistakes however – when we slip up or misspeak – often reveal what is going on unconsciously.