http://www.wordz.in/blog A word a day keeps ignorance at bay!® Fri, 08 Jan 2010 12:40:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 http://www.wordz.in/blog/2009/07/malapropism/ http://www.wordz.in/blog/2009/07/malapropism/#comments Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:58:24 +0000 admin http://www.wordz.in/blog/?p=33 Malapropism – Malapropos is an adjective or adverb meaning “inappropriate” or “inappropriately”,derived from the French phrase mal à propos (“ill-suited”). The terms malapropism and the earlier variant malaprop come from Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s 1775 play The Rivals, and in particular the character Mrs. Malaprop, who frequently misspoke to great comic effect. E.g. “It’s not the heat, it’s the humility”-Yogi Berra

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