What does misenunciate mean?
Misenunciate means To mispronounce due to poor articulation..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
To mispronounce due to poor articulation..
The training is not primarily intended for children who merely mispronounce or misenunciate or express themselves inaptly, unidiomatically and incorrectly for reasons other than defects of speech.
What common words are usually misenunciated because of failure to open the mouth properly?
In the method recommended here, when the sounds in nonsense combinations are larned no act of attention is required to repeat them, and when once a sequence of sounds which are used as part of a word is easily enunciated it slips into the formerly misenunciated word and makes it correct without any conscious effort on the part of the pupil.
It has been my experience that South Africans misenunciate more than half of these vowel sounds.
Use misenunciate when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Misenunciate means To mispronounce due to poor articulation..
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The training is not primarily intended for children who merely mispronounce or misenunciate or express themselves inaptly, unidiomatically and incorrectly for reasons other than defects of speech.
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