different between mispronunciation vs barbarism

English

Etymology

mis- +? pronunciation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?sp???n?n.si?e?.??n/, enPR: m?spr?-n?n'-s?-??-sh?n
• IPA^(key): /m?sp???na?n.si?e?.??n/, enPR: m?spr?-noun'-s?-??-sh?n (very common but often proscribed)
• Rhymes: -e???n
• Hyphenation: mis?pro?nun?ci?a?tion

Noun

mispronunciation (countable and uncountable, plural mispronunciations)

1. (uncountable) The act of mispronouncing.

   She found the constant mispronunciation of her name very annoying.

2. (countable) A mispronounced word or phrase.

   His speech was full of mispronunciations.

Related terms

• mispronounce
• pronounce
• pronunciation

Translations

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b??(?)b???z(?)m/
• (General American) enPR: bär?b?-r?z'm, IPA^(key): /?b??b????zm?/

Noun

barbarism (countable and uncountable, plural barbarisms)

1. A barbaric act.

   These barbarisms can not be allowed to continue; they must be crushed or civilization will collapse.

2. The condition of existing barbarically.
3. A word hybridizing Ancient Greek and Latin or other heterogeneous roots.
4. An error in language use within a single word, such as a mispronunciation.
   • 2002, Hyman, Bad Grammar in Context, New England Classical Journal, 29, p. 94-101

     In the jargon of the ancient grammarian, penacilin would be a barbarism.

Translations

Romanian

Etymology

From French barbarisme

Noun

barbarism n (plural barbarisme)

1. barbarism

Declension