🇰🇷Korean Source WordCode: KO

잘못 발음하다

Pronunciation / Transliteration: jalmos bal-eumhada

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Mispronounce/ˌmɪs.prəˈnaʊns/
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🇰🇷 Example Sentence in Korean:

"그는 종종 단어를 잘못 발음합니다."

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2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To pronounce a word incorrectly.

    "She tends to mispronounce foreign names."
  2. 2

    To make a mistake in the pronunciation of a word.

    "He mispronounced the title of the book during the presentation."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The word 'mispronounce' is formed from the prefix 'mis-', meaning 'wrongly' or 'badly', combined with 'pronounce', which comes from the Latin 'pronuntiare', meaning 'to proclaim'. The term has evolved in English since the late 19th century to denote the act of articulating a word incorrectly.

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