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

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 !!!

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...

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!

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".

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!)

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.

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.

My particular bugbear is
'step foot in'
when it should be 'set foot in'

Reading this, I was immediately reminded of Hilda Ogden!!
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My friend's sister knows someone who lives in Birkenstock (Berkhamsted) 😂

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.

I remember bmy mum completely misunderstanding the word sexy. She was commiserating with a friend who's DH was having an affair.My mum said in an angry voice. " He's so sexy. What a sexy beast!"
The poor woman was shocked and I was trying to keep a straight face. Dad looked deeply embarrassed.

A punket of strawberries 🍓
Prostate or prostrate. And my darling MIL used to call Petulia Clark....Petunia.

Oreo

Did you mean to write aurocorrect RosiesMawAgain 😁

Of course not - why didn’t it work then? 😱😱😱
Typos are something else.

AuRocorrect?

🤣🤣🤣

Did you mean to write aurocorrect RosiesMawAgain 😁

My aunt always referred to the menopause as the monoplus.

CabbageWars13

Wow! What a collection

Empathy or sympathising.

Perceptive.

Conclusions.

? What's my prize, please?

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

Sheridan. We recently saw a very funny remake of The Rivals, with Patricia Hodge playing Mrs Malaprop to perfection.

These things that enter family sayings are weird aren't they? They become so ingrained that your forget they are not correct. We have loads but I can't tell you one as they are normal now.

Just remembered - DH's uncle became an 'alcerolic' after an awful time in the war.

My dear mum said, innocently, that something had been accomplished in “one swell foop”. And one swell foop it has remained.

My mum bless her, sitting in the garden, lovely warm day she was gently swinging in a hammock type seat looked up at the blue sky and said ‘aren’t those clouds perathupic’
Mind you I m about the age she was then and I m sure I get loads wrong too

I’m forever doing it, and often here! Sometimes it is my typing, some times autocorrect. However, I always find it amusing when corrected or someone points it out.

However, on a more somber note, when spoken words are used, if someone constantly uses incorrect words it can be a sign of something more sinister!

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)

My late mum once said “ I’ve just seen a lovely film, Lawrence of Olivier” bless her.