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Thank you very much for overlooking my mispronunciations.
He was known for his occasional mispronunciation of medical terms.
You wouldn't get upset over the mispronunciation of a word, would you?

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mispronunciation | American Dictionary

mispronunciation
noun[ C/U ]
us/ˌmɪs·prəˌnʌn·siˈeɪ·ʃən/
a wrong sound used when saying a word, or the habit of pronouncing words or sounds the wrong way:
[ C ]I don’t speak Russian well and when I made a slight mispronunciation, she didn’t understand me.

Examples of mispronunciation

mispronunciation
The interaction between trial phase and pronunciation accuracy reflects the fact that accurate pronunciations produced systematic effects of naming whereas mispronunciations did not.
Because of a few mispronunciations, extraneous noise, etc., some of the 192 words from the seven- and twelve-year-olds and adults were excluded from auditory presentation.
Based on previous research, we expected that children would be sensitive to mispronunciations of familiar words, but not of novel words.
Earlier work led us to predict that children would be sensitive to mispronunciations of familiar but not novel words.
Listening for mispronunciations : a measure of what we hear during speech.
Most of such mispronunciation is a result of ignorance, which television and radio can do a lot to remedy.
Recent investigations using preferential looking have examined whether children's looking behaviour changes in response to mispronunciations of familiar words.
Finally, how should feedback be given about the nature of the mispronunciation?
All you need is a bit of deliberate mispronunciation.
They also tend less to be lexically driven and more to be simple mispronunciations.
Listening for mispronunciations in a children's story : the use of context by children and adults.
In the current task, however, children learn two phonetically different words, and their sensitivity to mispronunciations of those words is tested.
It is therefore not appropriate to examine sensitivity to mispronunciations for novel words in this block.
Second, exceptions which involve very common words whose mispronunciation will be noticeably detrimental to his/her speech.
Although a few late acquired phonemes were included in this experiment in onset position, subjects were not penalized for mispronunciations of onsets.
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