This is part 3 in an ongoing project to collect and highlight gems of real-life (mis)usages culled from the World Wide Web (and, occasionally, from other sources.) The following conversation is fictional, but the malaprops are all true:
“I saw a job listing the other day and my interest was peaked.”
“This is just my [...]
(An imaginary conversation made with real usages extracted from the rich mines of the internet.)
“How was your doctor visit?”
“Good – I don’t have prostrate cancer, so that’s good to know. I always hate having to drop trowel for the exam, of course.”
“Yeah. I had to take my kid in to have some suchers a while [...]
One of the joys of the World Wide Web is the glimpse we get into the workings, and sometimes into the malfunctionings, of so many minds. One of my internet-appreciation practices is to collect malaprops. I don’t write down every misspelling I run across, but the ones that strike my fancy — [...]
Recent Comments