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Malapropism!

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Heinzster
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Please prescribe something for virginal thrush
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[great, TOTP]
swittle
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Heinzster *Stands and cheers* :) ^
Heinzster
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😊
Big_G
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My SiL once said she’d step up and look after things for 5mins whilst her Dad was looking for something in the shed. ‘Don’t worry, Dad. I’ll hold the fork’.
3M (aka MarkyMarkMark)
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Shamelessly stolen from FB....
Fragile Do Not Bend
Fragile Do Not Bend
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[ I spent far too long thinking the correct phrase was doggie dog world :) ]
larkim
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Mark Kermode (BBC film reviewer) thought that a "crowfe" was something that always lay in straight lines, apparently.
Steve NordRunner
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That kind of thing happens to words if enough oeople say it. For example «an apron» was originally «a napron».
3M (aka MarkyMarkMark)
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Thank you NordRunner! Truly bizarre and actually could be a good challenge in a Tue or False kind of game.
(True, by the way! https://www.google.com/search?q=napron&rlz=1C1GCEB_en&oq=napron&aqs=chrome..69i57.2238j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8)

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The word "malapropism" (and its earlier variant "malaprop") comes from a character named "Mrs. Malaprop" in Richard Brinsley Sheridan's 1775 play The Rivals. Mrs. Malaprop frequently misspeaks (to comic effect) by using words which don't have the meaning that she intends but which sound similar to words that do.
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