Meaning of missound | Babel Free

Definitions

To sound or pronounce wrongly.

Examples

“Every word in English of more than one Syllable has a fixed accent established by the custom of the language, to misplace which is as offensive to the propriety of speech, as to missound the vowel.”

“Many of you have⟳ read⟳ these stories and could never pick⟳ out any such English; no more would you of the Ismael Persians Haly, or Mortuus Alli they worship⟳, whose true etymology is, mortuum halec, a dead Red-Herring, and no other, though, by corruption of speech they false dialect and missound it.”

“It is by some regarded a far more serious error to misaccent a word than to missound a vowel or diphthong or some other part.”

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