Date:    Wed, 11 Mar 1998 10:34:53 -0800
<br>From:    "A. Vine"  avine[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ENG.SUN.COM 
<br>Subject: Re: standardization of non-standard forms
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<br>I came across the following while reading a business plan:
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<br>"... his experience runs the gambit from blah to blah ..."
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<br>(OK, it doesn't actually have "blah to blah" in it!)
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<br>Andrea
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<br>  At 8:40 AM -0500 3/11/98, Robert Ness wrote:
<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
<br> himself
<br>     into Bolivia."
<br>     Cheers,
<br>     Devon Coles
<br>     dcoles[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]horizon.bc.ca
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<br>bite the wax tadpole
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