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missound en · NOUN
Etymology
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mey-?
Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂-der.
Proto-Germanic *missaz
Proto-Germanic *missa-
Proto-West Germanic *missa-
Old English mis-
Middle English mys-
English mis-
English sound
English missound
From mis- + sound.
Meanings
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(uncountable) mispronunciation.
They are, however, often found used in the second person without this suffix, for which the avoiding of the missound is quoted as the reason.
1874, Eduard Adolf Ferdinand Maetzner, An English Grammar, page 335:
missound en · VERB
Etymology
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mey-?
Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂-der.
Proto-Germanic *missaz
Proto-Germanic *missa-
Proto-West Germanic *missa-
Old English mis-
Middle English mys-
English mis-
English sound
English missound
From mis- + sound.
Meanings
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To sound or pronounce wrongly.
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.
1808, R.s. Skillern, A New System of English Grammar, page 128: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.
1939, John Baker Opdycke, Don't Say it: A Cyclopedia of English Use and Abuse, page 31: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.
1871, Thomas Nash, The Old Book Collectorʼs Miscellany, page 66:
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