missound

verb

Etymology

From mis- + sound.

  1. derived from sonō
  2. derived from soner
  3. derived from suner
  4. inherited from sownden
  5. derived from *swenh₂-
  6. derived from sonus
  7. derived from son
  8. derived from sun
  9. inherited from sownde
  10. prefixed as missound — “mis + sound

Definitions

  1. 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.
  2. 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

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA