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- Dictionarymischievous/ˈmɪstʃɪvəs/
adjective
- 1. causing or showing a fondness for causing trouble in a playful way: "mischievous children" Similar Opposite
- 2. (of an action or statement) causing or intended to cause harm or trouble: "a mischievous allegation for which there is not a shred of evidence" Similar Opposite
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For the period 1702-1720, Google Books finds twelve unique matches for mischievious—enough to suggest that the spelling may have reflected a then-current variant pronunciation, and not merely a series of typographical errors. On the other hand, it is undeniable that a person who fully intends to type mischievous may type mischievious by mistake.
The word mischievous is sometimes pronounced with a long e sound between the v and the last vowel (mis-chee-vee-us), although this is controversial. Is there a name for this type of word, where the pronunciation is made more complex than the spelling indicates?
Jan 2, 2011 · Sometimes, I wonder if my overall pronunciation is whack-a-doodle as the Los Angeles local TV news "talking heads" are seemingly speaking a different language (the word choice is especially entertaining during car pursuits; these idiots seem to think that using a 3 syllable word incorrectly is better than using a one syllable word appropriately).
Dec 17, 2015 · 1. Most people say BrE /pᵻˈrɪf (ə)rəl/ , /pᵻˈrɪf (ə)rl̩/ , AmE /pəˈrɪf (ə)rəl/. There is an entry in the OED for 'peripherial' as an alternate for peripheral. It is labeled ' rare ' and is given the pronunciation BrE /ˌpɛrᵻˈfɪərɪəl/, AmE /ˌpɛrəˈfɪriəl/. You may well have seen one of the rare occurrences of ...
Apr 10, 2013 · 1. "charm" was borrowed from Old (Norman) French, where ch was pronounced /tʃ/. "character" (at least in this spelling) was borrowed from Latin. – fdb. Feb 1, 2015 at 16:57. 1. There are a couple of very marginal other pronunciations, too: /h/ (in Cuchulainn, a mythological Irish hero) and silence (yacht).
Aug 21, 2016 · I don't know of any general opinions about which pronunciation is more "correct", but if one was widely considered incorrect, the dictionary would probably mark it with an obelus, as in Merriam-Webster's entry for mischievous "\ˈmis-chə-vəs, ˈmish-; ÷mis-ˈchē-vē-əs, mish-\", or a note, as in Merriam-Webster's entry for ask "\ˈask ...
Dec 1, 2019 · This phoneme is by convention normatively written as the diphthong /aɪ/ in both Received Pronunciation and General American, but the exact phonetics for that phoneme vary by dialect and speaker. He appears to saying [ɐi] there. This is a non-standard pronunciation of heinous according to the OED. He should not be using the PRICE vowel there.
Jul 22, 2019 · In most words, the epenthetic plosive is not written, so you could say that there is a /p/ in the pronunciation but not the spelling of warmth, dreamt, hamster, seamstress, a /t/ in the pronunciation but not the spelling of sense, glance, a /k/ in the pronunciation but not the spelling of strength, angst.
Sep 9, 2017 · Here is what John Sargeaunt had to say about the pronunciation of words of this type in The Pronunciation of English Words Derived from the Latin (1920): Stems ending in -ant and -ent. These are participles or words formed as such. Our words have shed a syllable, thus regentem has become 'regent'. Disyllables follow the 'apex' rule and lengthen ...
May 14, 2021 · There are some other words which have a change in spelling, such as miracle → miraculous (presumably from Latin influence (mīrāculum), or mischief → mischievous (probably to represent the change from unvoiced to voiced pronunciation between vowels).
