Mispronunciation

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Mispronunciation \Mis`pro*nun`ci*a"tion\ (? or ?), n.
     Wrong or improper pronunciation.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  mispronunciation
       n : incorrect pronunciation

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  26 Moby Thesaurus words for "mispronunciation":
     Irish bull, anacoluthon, bull, cacoepy, cacology, catachresis,
     corruption, fluff, folk etymology, gammacism, grammatical error,
     hypercorrection, hyperform, lambdacism, malaprop, malapropism,
     marrowsky, missaying, misspeaking, misusage, mytacism,
     paralambdacism, pararhotacism, rhotacism, solecism, spoonerism