Word of the Week

(For the week of 28 January - 3 February 2001)

 

mal.a.prop.ism n: the usually unintentionally humorous slight misuse or distortion of a word or phrase, sounding somewhat like the word or phrase intended, but ludicrously wrong in context.

ex: "Molypropylism is a malapropism of malapropism."

 

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