missound
missound verb: to sound or pronounce wrongly.
Verb
missound (third-person singular simple present missounds, present participle missounding, simple past and past participle missounded)
- 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
- 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
Noun
missound (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
Forms of missound
| third-person singular present | missounds |
|---|---|
| present participle | missounding |
| past participle | missounded |
| past | missounded |
Origin of missound
From mis- + sound.
Questions about missound
- What does missound mean?
- Missound means to sound or pronounce wrongly.
- What part of speech is missound?
- Missound can be a verb or a noun.
- What is the past tense of missound?
- The past tense of missound is missounded.
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