What's the difference between mispronounce and pronounce?
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.
Pronounce
Definition:
(v. t.) To utter articulately; to speak out or distinctly; to utter, as words or syllables; to speak with the proper sound and accent as, adults rarely learn to pronounce a foreign language correctly.
(v. t.) To utter officially or solemnly; to deliver, as a decree or sentence; as, to pronounce sentence of death.
(v. t.) To speak or utter rhetorically; to deliver; to recite; as, to pronounce an oration.
(v. t.) To declare or affirm; as, he pronounced the book to be a libel; he pronounced the act to be a fraud.
(v. i.) To give a pronunciation; to articulate; as, to pronounce faultlessly.
(v. i.) To make declaration; to utter on opinion; to speak with confidence.
(n.) Pronouncement; declaration; pronunciation.
Example Sentences:
(1) One hour after direct mechanical cardiomassage (DMCM) a moderately pronounced edema of the intercellular spaces in the basal compartment of the seminiferous epithelium, normal content of lactate and succinate dehydrogenases, and a certain decrease in the activity of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenases and NAD- and NADP-diaphorases were noted.
(2) Urinary ANF immunoreactivity was significantly enhanced by candoxatril in both groups (P less than 0.05 and P less than 0.01 in groups 1 and 2, respectively), with a more pronounced effect evident at the higher dose (P less than 0.01).
(3) A change in the pattern of care of children with IDDM, led to a pronounced decrease in hospital use by this patient group.
(4) With UVB treatment clinical improvement was achieved, and a less pronounced decrease in epidermal LC was noticed.
(5) Escherichia enterotoxigenic strains, Yersinia enterocolitica and Salmonella typhimurium virulent strains, Campylobacter jejuni clinical isolates possess more pronounced capacity for adhesion to enteric cells of Peyer's plaques than to other types of epithelial cells, which may be of importance in the pathogenesis of these infections.
(6) Hypercalcitoninemia was the most pronounced in patients with cardiac rhythm disorders and a simultaneous reduction in total serum calcium.
(7) The most pronounced changes occurred during the initial hours of nutrient and energy deprivation.
(8) This phenomenon is age dependent and more pronounced in animals with sever autoimmune disease.
(9) Comparison of the 50% binding concentrations of the compounds for the various PBPs of the five strains with their antibacterial activity indicates that the different antibiotics are excluded to a greater or lesser degree by the outer membrane permeability barrier and that the exclusion is most pronounced in P. aeruginosa.
(10) Electron microscopic observations of the masseter nerve in the aged cats revealed a disruption of the myelin sheaths and a pronounced increase in collagen fibers in the endoneurium and perineurium.
(11) Inhibition of binding of [3H]TPA to the receptor preparation by tigliane and ingenane DTE correlates with irritant activity in vivo, while some daphnane and 1 alpha-alkyldaphnane DTE inhibit binding of [3H]TPA in a less pronounced manner but still are very irritant.
(12) There were pronounced differences from the fine structural aspects in late infantile cases.
(13) A more pronounced and significant inhibition was observed in chicks given BCG subcutaneously 8 weeks before the start of the dietary regimen.
(14) There were pronounced interspecies differences in binding affinity and binding capacity which were the highest in guinea pig and human species, respectively.
(15) When propofol and fentanyl were used together, the cardiovascular effects were more pronounced than when they were used alone.
(16) In the synovia, size and number of the multinuclear giant cells are less pronounced.
(17) The concomitant reduction in aortic pressure and increase in heart rate following total occlusion of the portal vein were most pronounced during the first weeks after stenosis, and were probably due to diminished venous return to the heart.
(18) The sensitivity of the Limulus lateral eye exhibits a pronounced circadian rhythm.
(19) This early elevation in IOP was significantly more pronounced in bilateral superior cervical ganglionectomized (BG) rabbits.
(20) The ligands bind at discrete sites in the minor groove of DNA, and analysis on DNA sequencing gels show pronounced protection at the ligand binding sites, as well as more generalized protection.