The love-child of auro correct and Mrs Malaprop? 🤣

My friend's sister knows someone who lives in Birkenstock (Berkhamsted) 😂

Reading this, I was immediately reminded of Hilda Ogden!!
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My particular bugbear is
'step foot in'
when it should be 'set foot in'

My missus has never lived down the remark she made when going for a stroll in the countryside and said she's carry some water and something to eat in her 'suckrack'.

Even the grandkids call their school bags 'suckracks' now.

curlilox

I remember an elderly friend, during the salmonella in eggs saga, asking me why they were putting semolina in the eggs.
Also another friend telling me her husband had prostrate trouble.

Love these, made me laugh out loud.

Grammaretto

That's a nice one Sadgrandma
Although autocorrect wants me to write Dad's grandma

Then there are Spoonerisms and EggCorns.
An in-law of mine was always coming out with Malapropisms . She's sorely missed.
My DiL uses EggCorns and after a while you wonder which is correct.
e.g. Off his own back (instead of bat)
Or She's a mind of information (instead of mine)

Damp squid is the one that always makes me laugh! (I’ve just had to retype this three times as autocorrect kept changing it….correctly!)

My Mum used to say there was condescension on the windows.
A little while ago I told my DH that the moon was in the waxing giblet phase.
When my son was small he called reindeer Deinreer, and they have been called that in our family ever since.
All the above was quite hard to write with autocorrect "helping".

My brother’s DD was going through a phrase (phase) according to my sil. She went through a lot of phrases in her teenage years!

LadyBridgerton

'Leaping to concussion' is what my late ON did at College, he ran along a corridor and leapt down a short flight of steps without realising that the ceiling of the corridor made it dangerous to do, he slammed his head into the overhang and was out cold. This was long before elf'n'safety demanded a black and yellow tape on the edge of the lower ceiling to warn other idiots!

Reminds me of a conference venue I once attended as a teenager. It was an historic house which had once been used as a hunting lodge, and it had low ceilings. Over one of the flights of stairs, part way down, was a sign which read "DUCK OR GROUSE?" At nearly 6 ft in height, I did the latter...

I remember being in BHS with my Mum, who remarked in a very loud voice “ Oh good . I see they’re doing shitted nylon feets”
I pretended that she wasn’t with me !!!

I was walking with my 7 year old GD one day and we passed some catkin trees. She told me the trees looked as though they were covered in callapatillas. After getting her to repeat it a couple of times I said ‘oh you mean caterpillars!’ ‘that’s right’ she said ‘That’s what I said - callapatillas’. Caterpillars are always called callapatillas now.

Not really, it was more like a lecture. But in fact we DO know.

And actually, it is ‘thé very pineapple of perfection’, not ‘politeness’.

RosiesMawagain

JamesandJon33

I think we all know that.

Wasn't Mrs Malaprop invented by one of the Restoration playwrights? Word-mangling was also the trademark of comedienne Hilda Baker

I was replying to this question.

Yes, you were. Take no notice!

My mum used to constantly go into a st
store and ask for Trugel ( gents hair dressing) when she actually wanted Quick Jel. Don't know how many times she became uppity when being directed to the Chemists.

I remember an elderly lady referring to a capon for the guitar rather than a capo. My grandfather was immensely proud of all his grandchildren and confidently stated that one of my cousins was going to study for his BHS after his first degree .

And we must never forget the congealed lighting under the helmets.

My mum used to be amused when my grandmother would refer to one of the local shopkeepers as "a fornicating old man." She meant that he was fawning. Mum tried to tell her that the two words didn't mean the same thing but she took no notice.

Geordiegirl1

Not really, it was more like a lecture. But in fact we DO know.

This is the sort of snippy response that really puts me off posting on GN
Somebody asks a question
You answer it
Somebody else (with audible eyeroll) says YES we know that
And then you're accused of "lecturing"
Well clearly somebody didn't or they would not have asked.
Can't win

A friend whose husband was suffering with a slipped disc called it a slipped dick. I'm afraid that has stuck in our family.

Perhaps your grandmother knew more about the shopkeeper than your mother did, Bluecat.

Lovely posts here.

Anybody expecting a baby is "pregmunt" and the pyramids are in Eggpit according to my kids - now in their 40's, but yes, that's what we always say.

My Mum, bless her would never accept that Avocado wasn't Advocado and once - and this is probably the one and only time her and I had this sort of conversation - she told me that a friend of hers had left her husband and run off with another man as he was the only one who had ever given her an organism. I remained straight faced and expressed my shock.

JamesandJon33

I think we all know that.

That was a rather arrogant reply because some people might not know.

Instead of the snippy replies, FGS just scroll on. Sometimes people don't know the meaning. So you are insulting more than one person.

There are women similarly snippy at coffee mornings, meetings etc. Just makes them look really unpleasant.

DS has flat feet that used to cause him leg pain when he was younger. When he was four he said that his eggs laked. We always use that phrase now is our legs are tired. I think that is a spoonerism though rather than a malapropism,