An incorrect word in place of a word with a similar sound, resulting in a nonsensical, often humorous utterance.
Knowing by now that Sharon's favorite grammatically incorrect word, "funner," was synonymous for "harder," no one said a thing.
At the very least, don't be one of the people "who sit at library computers for hours but never seem to leave Facebook", "repeatedly shout out the same incorrect word during Pictionary", or, worst of all, "start the standing ovation".
I find all kinds of errors (incorrect word order, missing or extra words) at one place or another in about half the books I read (and I read a lot) Nequivocator, I salute you; and publishers, take note.
Lexical accuracy is generally high, though some confusion and incorrect word choice does occur without hindering communication.
First, the smart phonetic query may match an incorrect word utterance even if the two phonetic strings are identical.
To illustrate these possibilities for FSM applied to specific cases of word spotting, such as incorrect word segmentation and word-level local variations, we performed experiments on historical handwritten documents and also on historical printed document images.
That said, the interface for this a little is hit-or-miss (sometimes I'll mean to tap on an incorrect word, but it'll select a phrase, or vice versa).
Speech difficulties become evident due to an inability to recall vocabulary, which leads to frequent incorrect word substitutions (paraphasias).
These homonyms have distinct meanings, but, sure enough, the incorrect word can slip by if you're not careful.
When children hear an adult say an incorrect word, and then repair their mistake by stating the correct word, children take into account the repair when assigning meanings to the two words.
