(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.
Mispronunciation
Definition:
(n.) Wrong or improper pronunciation.
Example Sentences:
(1) We should note that the vessel in question is not a boat but a ship, and amendment to Shippy McShipface would attract unfortunate mispronunciations.
(2) Finally, it was found that a mispronunciation was detected about twice as often in word-initial than in word-final position in one syllable words for both stops and nasals.
(3) 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.
(4) ‘Troatie’ Facebook Twitter Pinterest John Key’s opening speech for the 2011 rugby World Cup was marred by his mispronunciation of the word “trophy”, a slip of the tongue he was perhaps unfairly reminded of for months to come.
(5) For example, mispronunciations produced by changing the voicing of a word-initial stop (e.g., "boy" to "poy") were detected about 70% of the time, while changes in voicing of a word-initial fricative (e.g., "voice" to "foice") were detected about 38% of the time.
(6) Mispronunciations produced by changing the place of articulation of a prestressed word-initial stop were most detectable of all (80% to 90% detection) for three different speakers.
(7) Mispronunciations were produced by changing a single consonant segment in a word to produce a (phonologically permissible) nonsense word.
(8) The systematic mispronunciations of young children often resemble phonological rules, and there is a temptation to treat the data as identical to adult phonological data.
(9) Which words do you mispronounce, and which common mispronunciations do you think we should resign ourselves to?
(10) The argument is clearer with Rangoon, a British mispronunciation of Yangon, which will now be our choice when referring to the former capital.
(11) The point is malapropisms and mispronunciations are fairly common.
(12) In this study, we examined the influence of various sources of constraint on spoken word recognition in a mispronunciation-detection task.
(13) Then, there's his lisp and his odd mispronunciations – in Barcelona, he kept using the term "a dollar cent", which I assumed was an example of fiscal insider jargon until I realised he actually meant "adolescent".