-
sometimes mispronounced as if
spelled "marscapone", even by food professionals. Shilcutt,
Katharine (2011-06-30). "20 More
Commonly Mispronounced Food Words"...
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Batter boards (or
battre boards,
Sometimes mispronounced as "battle boads") are
temporary frames, set
beyond the
corners of a
planned foundation at precise...
- and a chat. A
running gag in the show was that Big Bird
would often mispronounce Mr. Hooper's name,
although most
attempts ended in "ooper", such as "Looper"...
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which are also
offensive words,
inadvertently humorous (especially if
mispronounced) or
highly charged words, as well as
place names of
unorthodox spelling...
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produce results that are
humorous (or
humorously vulgar) when they are
mispronounced,
while others simply rely on the
confusion and
mistakes of the speaker...
- more
common in people's
names and place-names.
Often the
names are
mispronounced to
follow the
apparent English spelling so
Mackenzie is
commonly pronounced...
- oath is a
euphemistic expression formed by
deliberately misspelling,
mispronouncing, or
replacing a part of a profane, blasphemous, or
taboo word or phrase...
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Horace Vizetelly, A Desk-Book of Twenty-five
Thousand Words Frequently Mispronounced (Funk and Wagnalls, 1917), p. 233. Ladefoged, Peter; Johnson, Keith...
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memorable of
these was an ad for
Underwood Deviled Ham, in
which he
mispronounced the word "smorgasbord" as "b****ord." The
commercial garnered Reese...
- town of Drogheda, by a
former resident of that town. However, it is
mispronounced by all
characters as "Druh-GHEE-duh". In fact, the
Irish "gh" is pronounced...
