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Updated: May 13, 2025
"Please ask him to come up," she said to the German waiter who had mispronounced his name. As she waited for her visitor she was conscious of a faint creeping of shyness through her. It made her feel oddly girlish. When had she last felt shy? She could not remember. It must have been centuries ago. The German waiter opened the door and a white-haired man walked in.
We invented facts and appealed to authorities whose names I mispronounced; and, finding Gabbitas shy of the higher criticism and the Germans, I used the names of Karl Marx and Engels as Bible exegetes with no little effect.
Luckily, the Law of the Jungle had taught him to keep his temper, for in the jungle, life and food depend on keeping your temper; but when they made fun of him because he would not play games or fly kites, or because he mispronounced some word, only the knowledge that it was unsportsmanlike to kill little naked cubs kept him from picking them up and breaking them in two.
"The what!" exclaimed the Court Glover. "The er Archæopteryx," said Dick, hesitatingly, fearing that he might have mispronounced the name. "H'm! You see," said the Court Glover, addressing the Executioner, "to what depths this misguided bird has fallen, to actually associate with an animal bearing a name of that description.
But enough instances have probably been adduced to exemplify fully the general principles at issue. I think it will be clear that the English conquerors did not usually change the names of Roman or Welsh towns, but simply mispronounced them about as much as we habitually mispronounce Llangollen or Llandudno.
She even laughingly accused Ray of having suspected her on the evening of Mr. Merrill's reception, and then she explained the cause of her own strange behavior on that occasion. She had read of the Palmer robbery and the circumstances of his being kidnapped, and she realized at once, upon being introduced to him when he had mispronounced her name, that his suspicions had fastened upon her.
One portion of my county was populated almost entirely by Scandinavians, and here a list of fifty to a hundred words was selected which Scandinavian children always find it difficult to pronounce. At the first trial many or most of the children mispronounced a large percentage of them.
"Ah, Senorita Kembull!" he mispronounced. "I am charmed to see you again. Also the Senoritas Sparrow er I am so forget I know it is some kind of one of your charming birds ah! Robinson a thousand pardons! I am charmed!" and he bowed low to the twins. Then his eyes sought the face of Inez, but he showed no recognition, though the significant pause indicated that he expected also to address her.
Her Southern brogue was hardly more marked than Jack Emory's, but she mispronounced many of her words and dropped the final letters of others: she said "hyah" for "here" and "do'" for "door," and once she had said "done died." Betty determined to give special instructions to the Professor.
To hear names that he had read with awe, and mispronounced, most of his life, roll off Max's tongue "Old Steinmetz" and "that ass of a Heydenreich"; to hear the medical and surgical gossip of the Continent, new drugs, new technique, the small heart-burnings of the clinics, student scandal had brought into his drab days a touch of color. But that was over now.
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