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The first Mexican malapropism I heard, or recognized as such, was spoken at Chole Durán's refreshment booth in the plaza of Jocotepec, Jalisco.
The first category of altered expressions resembles malapropism in all its unintentional oddysey.
Mono sound equipment brings back the days when the phonograph rested in the den instead of in the home entertainment center, when quadraphonic might have been a malapropism for something in The Phantom of the Opera . Other backwords involve longer journeys in time: straight razors were the only razors around until the emergence of safety razors, which have in turn ceded precedence to the injector-blade and finally the twin-blade.
Fluellen first compares Henry to Alexander the Pig , is corrected by Gower, defends his malapropism, then goes on to say that the reason Alexander and Henry are alike is they both kill their friends!
Lysander Kemp reminded me of a malapropism in Spanish which I created for myself.