Malaprops
rogersgeorge on May 12th, 2017
Easy post today. Jim Scanarelli must save these up to fit so many into one Gasoline Alley strip. It’s at http://www.gocomics.com/gasolinealley/2017/04/28
Most places I’ve seen the term written as “malapropism,” but the first time I saw it, the word was “malaprop,” and I like that word better. The longer word sounds pretentious. The term comes from a Dickens novel that had a Mrs. Malaprop, who got a lot of her words humorously wrong.
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