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	Language Log: Mispronunciation and autodidacts
		the list of Bush's mispronunciations put out by yourDictionary.com, recently discussed by Mark Liberman), and it is this: people who mispronounce English words are taken to be in some way culpable.
		If not morally blameworthy (if you were a good and trustworthy person you would take the trouble to get things right), then at the very least they are taken to be slovenly or unintelligent.
		Mispronunciations are a characteristic feature of the speech of autodidacts -- people who have had to teach themselves.
	itre.cis.upenn.edu /~myl/languagelog/archives/000291.html (510 words)

	Dr. Frank's What's-it: Word Pronunciation Football, Part II
		The message is: "this person is so insignificant or objectionable that I can't even be bothered to remember the name or pronounce it correctly." It happens in your life.
		Mispronunciation of foreign words appears to be a more or less significant part of British linguistic culture.
		Words borrowed from foreign languages are often pronounced any which way except the way they are pronounced in their land of origin.
	www.doktorfrank.com /archives/001287.html (692 words)

	Peter Suber, "The Reflexivity of Change"
		In the former case we see the reflexive self-stabilization of language norms; in the latter, the reflexive subversion of the norms.
		Some of the phonetic changes that arise from natural needs of the mouth are minute and accepted because they are indiscernible; some are noticeable and accepted because they have a countervailing justification.
		The same pursuit of phonetic convenience leads to mispronunciations, tongue twisters, and slips of the tongue that are not accepted, even if they are often heard.
	www.earlham.edu /~peters/writing/freiburg.htm (12140 words)

	Language Log: Mispronunciation -- or prejudice?
		As far as I can see, only one of the five cited examples is actually a genuine mispronunciation -- "Anzar" for "Aznar" -- and this is a mistake that Bush apparently made in 2001!
		The rest are either standard American pronunciation variants, or instances of regional variation in the treatment of reduced vowels around liquids.
		Mark observes that the "point is a very subtle one for non-linguists," which is certainly true, and that "Bush-haters will grasp at anything", which is also true, though I'm not sure whether it's a defense or a further criticism.
	itre.cis.upenn.edu /~myl/languagelog/archives/000279.html (689 words)

	Table of Contents (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This study makes use of a listening for mispronunciation task to examine how native English listeners perceive sentences produced by non-native speakers.
		Mispronunciations (MPs) were constructed by changing the initial phoneme of target words by a single distinctive feature along the dimensions of voicing, place, or manner.
		Results showed that listeners (a) were more accurate and faster in detecting MPs produced by native than non-native speakers, (b) were more accurate and faster in detecting MPs in predictable than unpredictable sentences, and (3) were more accurate in detecting MPs produced by non-native speakers with milder accents, as compared to heavier accents.
	www.asha.org /about/publications/journal-abstracts/jslhr/42/01?articleabstract=56 (248 words)

	yourDictionary.com • 100 Most Often Mispronounced Words
		This mispronunciation has been around for so long (over 1,000 years) that linguist Mark Aronoff thinks we should cherish it as a part of our linguistic heritage.
		The younger generation is mispronouncing this phrase so intensively that it has become popular both as a mispronunciation and misspelling.
		The word is spelled "forte" but the [e] is pronounced only when speaking of music, as a "forte passage." The words for a strong point and a stronghold are pronounced the same: [fort].
	www.yourdictionary.com /library/mispron.html (2481 words)

	CDC - Cicero and Burkholderia cepacia: What’s in a Name?
		The Gileadites (circa 1143 B.C.) used pronunciation to differentiate their own from the Ephraimites, and the consequences of mispronunciation were severe.
		Today, mispronunciation, though not a matter of life and death, presents problems when it interferes with communication.
		In scientific nomenclature, Greek or Latin bionomials of infectious disease microorganisms are often mispronounced, sometimes causing confusion among healthcare professionals (e.g., infectious disease physicians, epidemiologists, and even microbiologists).
	www.cdc.gov /ncidod/EID/vol9no4/02-0700.htm (1254 words)

	List of neologisms on The Simpsons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Many of these are intentional mutations, mispronunciations, amplifications, or portmanteaux of recognizable words that reveal or emphasize aspects of the characters using them.
		Homer's mispronunciation of "stupid horoscope" caused by the pickaxe that impacted his head.
		Homer's mispronunciation of 'hungry' due to his fatigue during his hunger strike in the episode "Hungry, Hungry Homer".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons (8795 words)

	ABCDlady Magazine - for the American Born Confident Desi
		Some of my South Asian friends corrected the rampant mispronunciation of their South Asian names when they went off to college.
		Once again, I chose the mispronunciation, by now conscious that I was choosing a mispronunciation.
		As an attorney, I work with a lot of people, and I decided that an easy to remember version of my name was more valuable to me than a properly pronounced one.
	www.abcdlady.com /2005-04/art1.php (1007 words)

	mispronunciation \| Antimoon Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		That type of mispronunciation is most common among the functionally illiterate or among those with very limited reading vocabularies.
		I rarely encounter the mispronunciation you describe among adults, but when I do, it's usually because the speaker has never actually seen this word in print.
		Such mispronunciations are very common in children precisely because they have never encountered such words in print.
	www.antimoon.com /forum/t73.htm (173 words)

	neo-neocon: Mispronunciation by accident or by design
		My favorite high-falutin' mispronunciation is another joke - I first heard it at my sister's place in deep, dark, rural Pensylvania, but now I hear people all over the place pronounce the name of the store "Target" as "Tarzhay".
		Of course, mispronunciation is the least of it.
		As for mispronunciation by design, Richard J. Daley, once Hizzoner da Mare of Chicago, spoke English in an uneducated manner which contributed to the hostility Hyde Park liberals had toward him.
	neo-neocon.blogspot.com /2006/01/mispronunciation-by-accident-or-by.html (3222 words)

	Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition
		Speech is smooth; speaker is comfortable and confident in use of the language.
		No mispronunciation that would interfere with comprehension by a sympathetic native speaker.
		Several misunderstandings arise from mispronunciation of words or errors in intonation.
	carla.acad.umn.edu /assessment/VAC/Evaluation/rubrics/types/figAnFrOralY1.html (398 words)

	Arkcity.net: Community - Thank you for calling your 'Arkansaw' City Wal-Mart 12/28/04 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The local Wal-Mart's head pharmacist, Kelvin O'Daniel, said today that he and fellow employees at the store are well aware of the mispronunciation, but it was a corporate error made about three weeks ago.
		A corporate Wal-Mart spokesman based in Arkansas said today that the mispronunciation will be corrected.
		O'Daniel said the mispronunciation occurred after the corporation, which is based in Bentonville, Ark., changed its automated phone system for Wal-Mart pharmacies.
	www.arkcity.net /stories/122804/com_0002.shtml (562 words)

	Most annoying mispronunciation \| Antimoon Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		I cast my vote for the mispronunciation ''ak-tore'' for ''actor'' instead of ''ak-ter''.
		I don't like the mispronunciation ''libary'' but ''Febuary'' sounds fine to me and that's how I pronounce it.
		As for my pronunciation: I say it with both two and three syllables depending on how fast I am speaking.
	www.antimoon.com /forum/2004/6087.htm (466 words)

	Previous Columns/Posted 01/21/99
		Dear Word Detective: I am interested in your opinion about a theory of mine as to the origin of the word "baloney," meaning unauthentic, as in "full of baloney." It is, I think, commonly believed that baloney is a mispronunciation of the name Bologna, as in the sausage of the same name.
		However, recently an Irish friend was commenting on a mutual acquaintance, and referred to him as being "full of B'larney" (his pronunciation).
		It struck me that this mispronunciation was an even better explanation for the expression, which seems to refer to glibness as much as tainted contents.
	www.word-detective.com /012199.html (3497 words)

	Phonetic-Level Mispronunciation Detection In Non-Native Swedish Speech (ResearchIndex) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Abstract: This contribution presents part of the work initiated at the CTT for the development of speech technology to assist non-native speakers learn Swedish.
		This study focuses mainly on the automatic location of mispronunciations at a phonetic level.
		We first describe the database we created for this work and then report on the reliability of several phonetic scores to automatically locate segmental problems in student utterances.
	citeseer.ist.psu.edu /258096.html (292 words)

	alphaDictionary.com * 100 Most Often Mispronounced Words
		This is Dr. Goodword's one-stop cure for the plague of mispronunciation, the English words most often mispronounced ("mispronunciation" among them).
		The younger generation is mispronouncing this phrase so intensively that it is fast becoming popular both as a mispronunciation and misspelling.
		This mispronunciation is really a possible word in English but it would mean "capable of being supposed".
	www.alphadictionary.com /articles/mispronounced_words.html (2749 words)

	Fresh Baked: March 2005
		It is such a great way to ease the stress.
		This peeve is nicely settled on several layers of irony and hypocrisy as I am horrible with my own pronunciations (which is why I don't use big words in public) and also, because I think intentional mispronunciation (and the kind where someone says something incorrectly and I point and laugh) are HYSTERICAL.
		In high school, I had a near-miss with infrared (and seriously, can I get a hyphen or something in there somewhere?) moments after Playboy's Miss August 2000 had a nasty run-in with Rasputin.
	freshbakedbeans.blogspot.com /2005_03_01_freshbakedbeans_archive.html (341 words)

	Bostonist: Bostonist Rant: Mispronunciation of Place Names
		When we got on the phone and asked for a general practitioner in or near Somerville, the customer service lady paused a moment, did some clickety-clacking on her computer, and said, "Oh sure.
		I have someone in War-cester." Considering that Worcester is wicked fah from Somerville, her mispronunciation just added insult to injury.
		Then yesterday evening, a pollster called to ask Bostonist questions about local politics, which we love.
	www.bostonist.com /archives/2005/08/10/bostonist_rant_mispronunciation_of_place_names.php (446 words)

	Geoffrey Nunberg, clever media linguist, examines what our words really mean, including the way Bush says 'nucular'
		The common mispronunciation of "nuclear" by folks who should know better -- including senators on the Armed Services Committee and military spokespeople -- is what linguist Geoffrey Nunberg calls a "thinko."
		Fascinated by President Bush's mispronunciation of the word, Nunberg notes that Bush must have heard it spoken correctly at Andover, Yale and Harvard and from his father, who never had trouble saying "nuclear."
		The mispronunciation started with Eisenhower in the 1950s, after all.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2004/07/08/DDG1P7HEVA1.DTL (982 words)

	JewishEncyclopedia.com - JEHOVAH: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A mispronunciation (introduced by Christian theologians, but almost entirely disregarded by the Jews) of the Hebrew "
		This pronunciation is grammatically impossible; it arose through pronouncing the vowels of the "ḳere" (marginal reading of the Masorites:
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	www.jewishencyclopedia.com /view.jsp?artid=206&letter=J (521 words)

	Authenticity Through Mispronunciation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Joseph A. It's Not Meant to Sound Good: The Authentic Mispronunciation of Sophocles OT 332-33
		Good reading is assumed to be derived chiefly from good pronunciation.
		I wish to look here at some reading texts which are clearly designed to confound the reader's attempt to pronounce the scripts as written, and that a satisfactory performance of the script (that is, communicating the "true meaning" of the text) involves not reading what one sees.
	www.apaclassics.org /AnnualMeeting/05mtg/abstracts/smithj.html (73 words)

	Parshat Bereshit 5763 - Special Features - OU.ORG
		Just like TAPUCHA would be a mispronunciation of the Hebrew word for apple, so to is ELOHA a mispronunciation of one of G-d’s names.
		And because we are dealing with one of G-d’s names, its mispronunciation is a much more serious offense than saying LUCHA instead of LU’ACH.
		I am not, G-d forbid, accusing anyone of intentional disrespect for G-d’s name, but this is a mispronunciation that should be worked on.
	www.ou.org /torah/tt/5763/bereshit63/dav.htm (684 words)

	A Capital Idea: Don't. Fix. Quotes.
		Our reporters' first obligation, we feel, is to communicate a speaker's meaning.
		If a mispronunciation obscures the speaker's meaning, then a reporter must ask questions to clarify it.
		If the mispronunciation is just that--a mispronunciation and nothing more--then the reporter should render the word as the speaker obviously meant it.
	nstockdale.blogspot.com /2005/06/dont-fix-quotes.html (784 words)

	BeldarBlog: Nukular
		He was very smart, and could say the word correctly, but he chose to squander his time as President on such matters as supervising the schedule for the White House tennis courts.
		But for me, strangely, Dubya's mispronunciation of "nuclear" has become comforting.
		What you see is what you get; he is by far the most genuine politician I've ever seen, and he doesn't care about this mispronunciation because he has bigger fish to fry.
	beldar.blogs.com /beldarblog/2004/01/nukular.html (542 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Word for the Day 65 Years of Wit And Wisdom on Mispronunciation: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Amazon.ca: The Word for the Day 65 Years of Wit And Wisdom on Mispronunciation: Books
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	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0970657315 (195 words)

	Blu and Red bibys Mispronunciation page
		This website is for the promotion of the Mispronunciation of English by soft toys with Strange accents, and I run it along with my brother Blu-biby.
		Translation: I hope you don't think our Mispronunciation are not important just because we're soft toys.
		However The Mispronunciation of Mispronunciation is in itself a contentious issue, my brother for example always says:
	www.fabienfrog.co.uk /mispro.htm (422 words)

	Les Actualites Francais
		Monotone, stumbles over words, mispronunciation; lacks confidence with language, little effort
		Some mispronunciation, expressive with familiar material, stumbles over newly learned vocabulary, occasionally makes noticeable effort
		Clear articulation of familiar words; some mispronunciation of new vocabulary; displays ability to hold a basic conversation, makes solid effort
	online.sfsu.edu /~bjbeatty/itec712/roji/lesson_rubric.htm (250 words)

	Heaneyland!: Comment on Trivial matters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		My favorite mispronunciation of the morning, though, is still "Juaneau."
		Posted by Dan at May 16, 2004 04:15 PM
		I was tempted to jump in as a satellite team on my own, with the name JLA, after the mispronunciation from the last contest of "jai alai." But that didn't happen.
	www.yarnivore.com /mt/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=495 (143 words)

	Ax instead of Ask
		Be that as it may, this mispronunciation is a clear
		Although the original form was "ax", it was a tragic
		Although the original form was "ax", it was a tragic incident
	www.vocaboly.com /forums/ftopic1346.html (1300 words)

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