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English
Etymology
From mis- + sound.
Verb
missound (third-person singular simple present missounds, present participle missounding, simple past and past participle missounded)
- To sound or pronounce wrongly.
1808, R.s. Skillern, A New System of English Grammar, page 128: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.
1871, Thomas Nash, The Old Book Collectorʼs Miscellany, page 66: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.
1939, John Baker Opdycke, Don't Say it: A Cyclopedia of English Use and Abuse, page 31: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.
Noun
missound (uncountable)
- mispronunciation.
1874, Eduard Adolf Ferdinand Maetzner, An English Grammar, page 335: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.