How To Use Malapropism In A Sentence
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I would think long and hard before assuming that inarticulate speech and a gift for malapropism are indicators of stupidity.
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Further malapropisms were to be found last week in Ireland on Sunday.
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His verbal miscues and malapropisms are the natural consequence of a man struggling with internal contradictions and a lack of self-knowledge.
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They speak in spoonerisms and malapropisms and put forward bizarre concepts and beliefs.
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They speak in spoonerisms and malapropisms and put forward bizarre concepts and beliefs.
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Most likely, the term sheath is just another case of your typical Texan malapropism.
Texas sheet cake for a birthday | Homesick Texan
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There are numerous pun formats including knock-knock jokes and the beloved malapropisms, the latter immortalized in the character of Mrs. Malaprop (from the French mal à propos, meaning inappropriate) in Richard Sheridan's 1755 comedy The Rivals.
Grande Prairie Daily Herald Tribune
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The effect of a malapropism is usually humorous, but it can highlight quite profound connections between things.
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Two: a few days ago was the first anniversary of linguist Geoff Pullum's coining of the term 'eggcorns', a particular kind of malapropism that appears linguistically significant because it involves a switch to a wrong, but logical, alternative that is rapidly and widely assimilated into general language.
Archive 2004-09-01
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The mishearing of a word or phrase, an aural malapropism, is referred to as a mondegreen.
Times, Sunday Times
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Here is a list of student malapropisms which I have collected since I began teaching - each represents an actual student's statement!
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Malapropisms and spoonerisms add colour to language.
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It's even easier to find uncontroversial typos, grammatical errors, malapropisms and other infelicities in unedited texts written by less skilled writers, or by writers in a hurry.
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Often a media gaffe is not an isolated malapropism but a reflection of an executive's whole attitude.
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It's not the accent so much as the malapropisms that set them apart.
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Daley's not even as entertaining as his father, Richard J. Daley, whose speech impediments churned out some of the most memorable malapropisms in American history: "He's a man of great statue" and "The policeman isn't here to create disorder, he's here to preserve dis order" (dis in the second instance is Chicagoese for "this".)
Ray Hanania: Leno Causes Seismic Shift in Delicate Balance Between Husbands and Wives Across America
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Each day has a statement containing spoonerisms, malapropisms, contradictions, strange and unrelated facts, and misuse of words.
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All the following are 100% genuine malapropisms, as said by R and L at various times in my hearing.
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Each day has a statement containing spoonerisms, malapropisms, contradictions, strange and unrelated facts, and misuse of words.
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I decided against a bottle of wine as Mother had already drained her Kir with some speed and had begun to confuse her spoonerisms with her malapropisms.
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Of these, errors in sound, usually called malapropisms, are probably the best known.
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Did you ever wonder where the word malapropism came from?
Bock The Robber
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At a White House ceremony where he signed the $417 billion defense spending bill for the 2005 fiscal year, Bush uttered another of his celebrated malapropisms.
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They speak in spoonerisms and malapropisms and put forward bizarre concepts and beliefs.
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Mr. STARR: It's called a malapropism, John used to say.
Ringo Starr: The Drums Are Where The Soul Is
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His dotty malapropisms often misrepresent him as a man closer to senility than sense but, at 69, he is still sharp enough to be able to match Fergie in the mental boxing ring.
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His malapropisms and good old boy manner give him the air of a simpleton, and yet he's not.
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Apparently Fowler considered this to be a malapropism as they sounded similar.
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While Goody did not win Big Brother 3, she was in the house long enough for her gobby nature and malapropisms to generate public affection.
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Here is a list of student malapropisms which I have collected since I began teaching - each represents an actual student's statement!
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More than most linguistic modes, such as paronomasia and malapropism, quasi malediction has diametric force.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 1
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Non sequiturs, tautologies, obiter dicta, wild generalizations, malapropisms and clichés abound.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The funniest malapropisms and turns of phrase tend to be unintentional bloopers.
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I decided against a bottle of wine as Mother had already drained her Kir with some speed and had begun to confuse her spoonerisms with her malapropisms.
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I do appreciate cultural artifacts, however, my appreciation includes a recognition of irony, and I mean irony in its strictest sense, not as a malapropism for sarcasm or smug insincerity.
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Further malapropisms were to be found last week in Ireland on Sunday.
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This is simultaneously a spelling error and a malapropism.
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Along with this eggcorn came a classical malapropism as well.
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Van Wyk's narrator, a harum-scarum, hard-drinking journalist called Scara Nhlabatsi, relishes all manner of rude jokes, bawdy abuse, malapropisms and puns and provides a slew of images of the vulgar excess of power.
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It's not the accent so much as the malapropisms that set them apart.
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This is a garden-variety malapropism, substituting compulsion for the similar-sounding word compunction, though the meanings are radically different.
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All the following are 100% genuine malapropisms, as said by R and L at various times in my hearing.
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Major-General William Borthwick maki-e malapropisms malhavelins
The Joy of Crockford's Clerical Directory
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This is simultaneously a spelling error and a malapropism.
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The effect of a malapropism is usually humorous, but it can highlight quite profound connections between things.
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At a White House ceremony where he signed the $417 billion defense spending bill for the 2005 fiscal year, Bush uttered another of his celebrated malapropisms.
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His verbal miscues and malapropisms are the natural consequence of a man struggling with internal contradictions and a lack of self-knowledge.
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Apparently Fowler considered this to be a malapropism as they sounded similar.
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It would appear that the recession — or “the reception” as my malapropism-prone pal Milly De Cabrol, the interior-decorating genius, keeps calling it — has increased, rather than decreased, the lemminglike stampede into the World of Fashion.
The Blond and the Short of It: Rachel Zoe Poaches My Fashion Week Klieg Lights
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The funniest malapropisms and turns of phrase tend to be unintentional bloopers.
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Of these, errors in sound, usually called malapropisms, are probably the best known.
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a type of slip of the ear in which people mishear a word and mispronounce it, then insist that the malapropism is correct.
Eggcorns: Folk Etymology Creating New Meanings Every Day
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His nervousness escalated into an avalanche of malapropisms.
Times, Sunday Times
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Finally, it's also something like a malapropism, where a word is mistakenly substituted for one of similar sound shape.
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Often a media gaffe is not an isolated malapropism but a reflection of an executive's whole attitude.
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Finally, it's also something like a malapropism, where a word is mistakenly substituted for one of similar sound shape.
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The explanation behind House File 2028 says it would correct a "malapropism" in the legal description.
DesMoinesRegister.com - NEWS
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And it features the kind of malapropism-prone character who says “Toblerone” when he means “testosterone.”
London Theater Journal: Hitting Bottom - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com
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For example, bad malapropisms are not only excused, but also quite plainly understood.
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When he used clichés or malapropisms, he did so for comic effect.
Times, Sunday Times
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I decided against a bottle of wine as Mother had already drained her Kir with some speed and had begun to confuse her spoonerisms with her malapropisms.
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For example, bad malapropisms are not only excused, but also quite plainly understood.
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The funniest malapropisms and turns of phrase tend to be unintentional bloopers.
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His verbal miscues and malapropisms are the natural consequence of a man struggling with internal contradictions and a lack of self-knowledge.
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This is simultaneously a spelling error and a malapropism.
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Like Clark Coolidge, whose verve depends on malapropism, neologism, and ricochet, Roberts bounces back and forth within a multivalent vocabulary.
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But somewhere along the way, Texans, known for malapropisms and creative spellings, (heck, the name of the state is even a refashioning of a Caddoan word, Tejas, which means friends) took out the extra "i" and decided to call it pimento.
Archive 2007-02-01
