Malapropisms

[WigstonWanderer]

18 minutes ago, drumbeat said:

I had to say that to myself a number of times over before hearing that there's a difference in stress. It is odd that someone can say 'enlarge', I've not heard anyone say that. You must have thought you heard it wrong!

I cannot possibly say where I came across it without seeming like a complete cvnt.

[FoxesDeb]

10 minutes ago, WigstonWanderer said:

I cannot possibly say where I came across it without seeming like a complete cvnt.

I spotted it too 

[STEVIE B]

My dad, bless him, always called boxing heavyweight legend Lennox Lewis, Lewis Lennox.

 

[Carl the Llama]

"Bored game". 

[Buce]

5 hours ago, Carl the Llama said:

"Bored game". 

 

Isn't that a homophone?

 

Or does it count as a textual malapropism?

[drumbeat]

Can I invent one? Run of the milf, I'd quite like the run of the milf.

[MPH]

Am I allowed to include Americans for saying Math instead of Maths?

 

 

[Carl the Llama]

8 hours ago, Buce said:

 

Isn't that a homophone?

 

Or does it count as a textual malapropism?

Yes.

[fazzyfox]

Years ago I was round my Grans and after lunch she said she wanted to watch "Pussyfoupoo" on tv. We frowned and shrugged shoulders and tried a few channels. What is it? A cartoon cat? Something rude? A new fangled dessert on a cookery show? After a while we flicked back to BBC 1, the Wimbledon Final. "That's him" she declared. It was Philipoussis !

[Buce]

 

Of course, our fellow foxestalkers are not immune:

 

(The main forum, today) "It’s going to interesting to see who takes that poised chalice of a job..."

[MPH]

29 minutes ago, Buce said:

 

Of course, our fellow foxestalkers are not immune:

 

(The main forum, today) "It’s going to interesting to see who takes that poised chalice of a job..."

NAME AND SHAME

[notnow john]

Three from my mates collection,

 

Not that old peanut.

Has it got a Panasonic roof.

Here comes the other half of the trio.