Monday 20 June 2011

Malapropisms

errors of word selection [1]

The bouy asked for his stare and went of with the impertinance. He parted in a land far away, and began two suspend his cosh.

Soon, it was gene, and he was pestilence.

Formaline struck the land and the boy was Hungary. He fed prigs and lunged to eat their foot.

He came to his sentances, and decided to repairent and go home. ‘I shell ask my further to hallow me to be his service.'

While he was stilt a long way off, his father sawed him and rang to hymn. He killed him, gave him a sling, a boat, loos and kissed the flattened carp.

He threw a parity, and said ‘This my song was lust; now he is ground! He was dad; knew he is leaving!’

[1] after Mrs Malaprop, a character from RB Sheridan’s classic comedy of manners The Rivals (1775)



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