Date:    Wed, 11 Mar 1998 08:40:31 -0500
<br>From:    Robert Ness  ness[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]DICKINSON.EDU 
<br>Subject: Re: standardization of non-standard forms
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<br>I've recorded the following suspected malapropisms from my students:
<br>faulter (falter); take for granite, vice versal, boiling (buillon) cube,
<br>expertriate, a doggy-dog world, to passify (too soothe into passivity), to
<br>place one on a pedistool, to route out sin, Nato is out of sink with
<br>Europe, Emerson believes in a happy median, blood was trinkling from the
<br>cut, and my favorite: he was in the field plowing his burro (i.e., he
<br>doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground). On Tue, 10 Mar 1998,
<br>Devon Coles wrote:
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<br>  Peter McGraw wrote regarding malapropisms:
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<br>   (My own favorite example is a woman who was denouncing some group of
<br>   people or other and concluded by telling me, "I just think they ought
<br>   to be Osterized!"  Unfortunately, to my knowledge it never caught
<br>   on, even regionally.)
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<br>  My personal favourite is the example of a receptionist in my office who
<br>  reported a great night on the town during which her boyfriend "drank himself
<br>  into Bolivia."
<br>  Cheers,
<br>  Devon Coles
<br>  dcoles[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]horizon.bc.ca
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