Auntie was a bit of a Mrs Malaprop.

Lovely! 😂😂

I dont understand what this thread is supposed to be about.

This put me in mind of my MIL's version of hysterectomy. It was 'ectastretna'. We could never get her to pronounce it correctly.

What it says on the tin in the title, biglouis - just a bit of fun. Your auntie certainly sounds fun, Daddima!

biglouis clue in the thread title.
My mother used to get Lebanese and lesbian mixed up.

My friend is a little like that Daddima I don’t t correct her, but my urge is to!

Mt MIL gave me clumps of her lavatory plant.
Big Louis - Mrs Malatrop was a Dickins character who mixed her words up - I forget which book.

It’s Mrs. Malaprop, rather than Malatrop, The character is from Sheridan’s play The Rivals & it’s Dickens rather than Dickinson. Otherwise spot on!

Correction Dickens rather than Dickins

I am reminded of an incident in one of the James Herriot books where he said their secretary took a message from a farmer and it said the animal had Smiling Harry Syphilis 😂

(Turned out it was swine erysipelas, a skin infection. The farmer pronounced it "arrysipelas" when James called him back.)

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Mt MIL gave me clumps of her lavatory plant.
Big Louis - Mrs Malatrop was a Dickins character who mixed her words up - I forget which book.

Mrs Malaprop was from the play The Rivals by Richard Brinsley Sheridan (written in 1775)
Sheridan was an MP for Stafford.

Not sure where Dickens comes into it as he wasn't born for another nearly 40 years 😃

My friend wanted her daughter to go to that posh Catholic boarding school Stella Artois.

Another friend thought her asthma was exasperated by pollen.

My neighbour suffered from painful asteroids and had some supposetrees from the doctor.

My mil used to talk about her Cotton Easter plant. She also fed her house plants with Baby Bibo (Bio)

One of my DD's had a sore on her head . When we bumped into a friend she asked what was the matter, the other DD said "Daddy says it's Anne Franks". She meant anthrax.

My neighbour suffered from painful asteroids
That could be very painful indeed 😂

My Mum always says skellington and chimley, and my Nan used to as well, may be a Londoner thing.😄
( skeleton and chimney)

When my mum was in her dementia days she told me the clouds were very peritutic

My mother used to say immortal when she meant immoral.
E.g a woman in the neighbourhood was jailed for keeping an ''immortal""house.

I had an aunt like that. The menopause was the monoplus and brides had a Caruso.

Her one liners were great though. Watching a news item about gonorrhoea she declared it was normally a case of, ‘here today, gone tomorrow!’ 🤣

I knew a lady who was very proud that her husband was in the SAS. She meant the ASA (amateur swimming association.)
My grandmother took biototics for her sore throat!

“Power of eternity” is a good example of a malapropism.

My mum used to say she liked a sprinkle of desecrated coconut over her curry