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

I think I am turning into Mrs Malaprop. I recently told someone my husband's cancer was in recession instead of remission 😄

I remember someone talking about a local court case, saying that the accused asked for several other offences "to be taken into commiseration".

Another chap and I looked at each other with a smile as soon as we heard this, but the lady denied saying it.

Oh and our eldest called Father Christmas, Farmer Christmas

My mother insisted on calling Sri Lanka, Siri Lanka, which is what we call it now!

Also we call the remote controller, “the buttons”

My daughter went to gymelastic classes.

When my daughter was little, she was very upset that our dog - a female labrador - was going to be spaded.

A friend once told me she had worn a lovely fornicator to a wedding and I’m afraid it has stuck in my mind. It’s just taken me ages to think of the right word ‘fascinator’!

I love the punket of strawberries..sadly I now cannot remember the correct word. No hope for me!

I have a real problem with QR codes - if I don't remember to pause and think before saying it, I tend to come out with QI codes instead. 😳

Many years ago I was trying to flatter a woman visitor---I forget why----and when I accompanied her to our car park I gushed "What a superfluous car!"

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,

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.

JamesandJon33

I think we all know that.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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 .

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.

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!

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

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

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.