mispronunciation

3 definitions found

mispronunciation - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

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

mispronunciation - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  mispronunciation
      n 1: incorrect pronunciation

mispronunciation - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  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