"Prenounce"

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Mon Jan 22 04:51:45 UTC 2007


552 Google hits. The majority of cases are misspellings of "pronounce":

How do you prenounce his name?

There are a few cases in which "prenounce" appears to be a kind of
eggcorning of "pre-announce," itself, of course, a neologism:

What does it matter if Apple prenounces products not yet in the pipeline?

-Wilson
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