See misenunciate on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1948, Harry Joseph Heltman, Handbook for Remedial Speech, page 110:",
"text": "In the method recommended here, when the sounds in nonsense combinations are larned no act of attention is required to repeat them, and when once a sequence of sounds which are used as part of a word is easily enunciated it slips into the formerly misenunciated word and makes it correct without any conscious effort on the part of the pupil.",
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