mispronunciation

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Wrong or improper pronunciation.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loudly. Do not compound mispronunciation with inaudibility. Mark Twain

And the weakness, that he sometimes chooses a weak way to sing. A strange mispronunciation, or low bent sounding. Source: Internet

In later episodes, Tom Anderson uses the Hollings mispronunciation once, and on at least one occasion refers to them as "Penis and Butt-Munch". Source: Internet

Page's manager Peter Grant suggested changing the spelling of "Lead" to "Led" to avoid mispronunciation. Source: Internet

As for Wednesday, I believe it came from the Anglo-Saxon god Wodin who was some sort of relation or mispronunciation of the Norse god Odin. Source: Internet

He could only say five words, 'yes,' 'no,' 'three,' 'always,' and 'lelo' (a mispronunciation of his own name). Source: Internet

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