"Mispronounce" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... I entreat you," replied Aunt Margaret. "You remember the Gaelic song, though I dare say I mispronounce ...
— Waverley Volume XII • Sir Walter Scott
... mispronounce the name of the capital city of the Hawaiian Islands. Call it Hoo-noo-luu-luu and let it sing itself. Remember that this city is not on the larger of the islands, but the third in size. The area of Hawaii, the greater island, ...
— The Story of the Philippines and Our New Possessions, • Murat Halstead
... phrase the other, and more so. The latter, being long ago vulgarly contracted into t'other, probably gave rise to the apparent contraction another; which many people nowadays are ignorant enough to divide wrong, and mispronounce. See "a-no-ther" in Murray's Spelling-Book, p. 71; and "a-noth-er" in Emerson's, p. 76. An here excludes any other article; and both analogy and consistency require that the words be separated. Their union, like that of the words the and other, has led ...
— The Grammar of English Grammars • Goold Brown |
