A Malaprop Everyone Knows

rogersgeorge on July 20th, 2019

A malaprop is when you have the meaning right but the pronunciation wrong. I don’t think a malaprop requires the mispronunciation to be an actual word. (In which case I know a member of my local home government who makes a lot of malaprops. But I digress.)

Anyway, the toaster gives the guy his revenge…

DeFlocked Comic Strip for May 26, 2019 — https://www.gocomics.com/deflocked/2019/05/26

Wouldn’t you know it; I ran into a comic about malaprops!

Quiz: Can you tell what the correct words are? I counted six malaprops…

Frank and Ernest Comic Strip for May 26, 2019 — https://www.gocomics.com/frank-and-ernest/2019/05/26

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