Word of the Day for Thursday February 26, 2004
malapropism \mal-uh-PROP-iz-uhm\, noun:
The usually unintentionally humorous misuse of a word, especially by confusion with one of similar sound also, an example of such misuse.
At 15, Rachel, the whiny would-be beauty queen who "cares for naught but appearances," can think only of what she misses: the five-day deodorant pads she forgot to bring, flush toilets, machine-washed clothes and other things, as she says with her willful gift for malapropism, that she has taken "for granite."
Michiko Kakutani, "'The Poisonwood Bible': A Family a Heart of Darkness,"
New York Times, October 16, 1998
He also had, as a former colleague puts it, "a photogenic memory"a malapropism that captures his gift for the social side of life, his Clintonian ability to remember names of countless people he has met only briefly.
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Seems doable to me. Hmm couldn't post code, oh well, but there is a easy to grab info section.
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