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Malapropism
Malapropism Look up Malapropism in Wiktionary, the free dictionary A malapropism (from French mal à propos, "ill to ... Hard Day's Night comes from a malapropism drummer Ringo Starr created when a band ...
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Talk:Malapropism
Talk:Malapropism According to my dictionary (Webster's New ... to clarify the actual word that the malapropism replaced. Therefore the actual word is not ...
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List of warships by nickname
... horse "'Am and Tripe" - HMS Amphitrite ; humorous malapropism "America's Favorite Carrier" – USS Carl ... Tullibee C "Cannabis" – USS Canopus; humorous malapropism "Century One" – HMS Centurion; humorous malapropism "Christmas Anthem" – HMS Chrysanthemum ; humorous malapropism "Chuckie V" — USS Carl Vinson "Cocoa Boat" – HMS Curacoa; humorous malapropism "Connie" – USS Constellation; diminutive of ...
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Talk:A Hard Day's Night (song)
... Femto 13:23, 17 Oct 2004 (UTC) Malapropism? I don't think this qualifies as a malapropism, despite the fact that McCartney used the ... late trying to keep the use of "malapropism" 'clean', and the word worked for me ... fitting word for this kind of 'retroactive malapropism' that distorts a phrase by actually correcting ...
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List of sexual slurs/old
... cunning linguist - (North America) lesbian, a humorous malapropism for cunnilingus. Also: one who is particularly ... Lebanese, Lebanon, "Lebanese Thespian" - (UK) a humorous malapropism for lesbian Left Handed Rock Thrower - (AUS ...
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Talk:Pepe Le Pew
... not the best example of a Maltese Malapropism, but the best I could come up ... I can't remember it exactly.... Maltese Malapropism ? why maltese ? No matter how I disguise ...
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Bushism
... obviously wrong in the context (i.e., malapropism). "People outside the information" versus "outside the ... poem comprising Bushisms. Each line contains a malapropism said to have been uttered by George ...
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Yogiisms
... language, especially the alteration of clichs through malapropism and mixed metaphor. See also Malapropism Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related ...
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Malapropismus   (translated from German)
Malapropismus That Malapropismus (English: malapropism) is a tell-technical trick, with a ...
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Talk:Enabling Act/Archive1
... dual and changing residence ,will fall into malapropism . Even long residence in another language area ...
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