The creation of unintentionally hilarious misstatements, or what is called malapropism, is alive and well in our semi-literate society that doesn’t bother to actually figure out how to properly say a turn of phrase or doesn’t have time to use the correct term. They even have a new name for the modern variations, eggcorns, and today seems like a good day to look into some of the more interesting examples.
Author Robert Aldin Rubin recently talking about his collection and wonderful drawings of eggcorns.
Watch his presentation starting at the 7:23 mark Here
All the links positively team with malapropisms, some of which left me curled up in a febble position. The examples just go on and on, ad nauseam.
I couldn’t get past the “A” section and I have a headache.
Oh deer, two much. Gotta run, we’re having cold slaw with holiday sauce.
Yep, the one that irritates me the most is in there. I honed right in on it.
My job has great french benefits!
Dr. Tar “From the eggcorn grows the mighty dope.” Howboutthat?
McAnerney was my mother’s mating name.
The eggcorn doesn’t fall far from the squirrel.
Yoga Beara…..beat that I dares use….
I’ll admit, I’ve misspoken some of these myself, but quite on the list are just plain lazy speak and the ill informed trying to sound smarter than the are.
Oy, I have seen many of these in the past while scoring student essays. ‘Once a pond of time’ I used to have a list that I added to every season. These kids are my ‘roll model’ for all things kittywampus. It was sometimes ‘over well-meaning’ to try to figure out what they meant, but after a while, you would get ‘whys’ to the way they try to get their meaning across.
One that stumped me for a long time was: ‘five ball tomer’ (fibroid tumor).
I see many of these on social media every day used by the same people who can neither spell not construct a sentence. What are they being taught in school now?
My favorite is “wallah!” for ” voila!”.
I thot it wuz Viola…
Cringeworthy misspellings, run-ons, punctuation and other grammatical errors have been the norm on the internet since 2000. It still makes me angry and frustrated. We now have an ignorant, lazy millennial generation of useless Eggcorns.
LOl! Years ago, a newly immigrated Asian classmate of mine figured out a technical issue that had our class stumped. She ended her note about the solution with the word, “Viola!” We all laughed about that for years. I still say it just for fun.
https://i.redd.it/66ntjgncw0py.jpg
I’ve loved spoonerisms since I was a kid. Norm Crosby was the man. Zappa used em too, along with grammatical and syllabic misuses.
I can’t think of a pacific examacle right now but I’ll check with my orifice next weak and git back to youins.
A real blessing in the skies.
@Bongopoofter, didn’t Victor Borge do that type of humor, too? My dad used to love watching him.
Edgar Allen Poe used a character named Mrs. Malaprop in writing some of his lighter stories. You wouldn’t think that dark little man could write anything so hilarious.
@Claudia, I remember him as an accomplished pianist too…he would announce a serious piece by one of the classical composers, proceed to mangle it, then stop, turn the sheet page over and play it beautifully.
My daddy die of a master (massive) heart attack.
De stermostat (thermostat) muss be stick.
Judy in the sky (disguise).
I recommend (commend) you all.