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Example sentences for: malaprop

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Malaprop in Mexico,” by Lysander Kemp [XV,4].
As Lysander Kemp reminded us in Mrs. Malaprop in Mexico [XV,4], other tongues have their slips, as well.
Already, while working my head to the bone on the above examples and others too humorous to mention, I had been visited by fond memories of Jane and Goodman Ace, those masters of malapropism—though, according to an article in The New Yorker which I read years ago, Goodman was the master; Jane was a real-life Mrs. Malaprop.
Sometimes the shift comes about through the omission of a word: in a recollection entitled Master Malaprop [VII,2], James Higgins describes a newspaper editor who made such proclamations as A hand in the bush is worth two .
Other examples include to braille , to biro , to grangerize , to malaprop , to spoonerize , and to morse .