missound
verbEtymology
Definitions
To sound or pronounce wrongly.
- Every word in English of more than one Syllable has a fixed accent established by the custom of the language, to misplace which is as offensive to the propriety of speech, as to missound the vowel.
- It is by some regarded a far more serious error to misaccent a word than to missound a vowel or diphthong or some other part.
mispronunciation.
- They are, however, often found used in the second person without this suffix, for which the avoiding of the missound is quoted as the reason.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for missound. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA