New Malapropism

[RoxyNotFoxy]

On Radio 4's Front Row last week I heard a modest character referred to as "self-defecating".

Now I'm wondering why this bit of linguistic confusion isn't one I've heard before. Because it's kind of obvious isn't it? It's been waiting to happen.

All we need now is the converse one: "People were deprecating on the floor".

[TrinityTheProgressingRhino]

lol

[WanderingTrolley]

tee hee

I remember finding myself watching the 'the Lundy Munchtime' news, as announced by the newsreader.

I do like when it's munchtime

[RoxyNotFoxy]

Another one I heard not so long ago: "It's her magnus opum".

[Blandmum]

My mother would insist that my father had problems with his 'Prostrate' gland.

[Nagapie]

My BIL went to a dinner party where a real Hyacinth Bucket wife told him that she wanted to move her family to a more effluent area ...

[LaComtesse]

I remember once confidently declaring that capital (corporal) punishment was no longer permitted in schools(I was about 13) and wondered why this pronouncement was greeted with gales of mirth from my family .

[pania]

My grandmother once indulgently said of some young man "Well, he's just sowing his rolled oats".

[Blandmum]

My mother often used to talk about Lawrence of Olivier

[Heated]

My grandmother told a friend that career-wise I was thinking about soliciting!

[Blandmum]

PMSL....and did you????

[Heated]

No, I went into a less well paid & less respected profession

[talkingmongoose]

My sister told me a couple of weeks ago that global warming waa causing great white sharks to come inland.

I do hope she meant inshore.

[expatkat]

Martianbishop

I attended an event where a man read from his self-published collection of poems which he said was inspired by his experiences with "prostrate" cancer. The word "prostrate" was used throughout the whole book. It'd have been heatrbreaking, except the guy was annoying and deluded.

[expatkat]

I have this mental glitch with carnation and incarnation.

I sometimes say, "it's had lots of carnations" and my mother rofl at me.

[LaComtesse]

My boss was explaining to someone (not me) the difference between emaciation and emancipation the other day. Vital knowledge if you want to be free rather than starved . I forget the context it came up in now - he's the sort of boss who is a Know It All.

[branflake81]

When I was a nipper doing my A Levels, I thought that "incarcerate" meant to "embody" so would pepper my essays with phrases such as "this character incarcerates / is an incarceration of ....."

[RoxyNotFoxy]

I once knew a woman (who actually worked for the Civil Service) who thought there was a government department called Customs & Exercise.

[SheikYerbouti]

rofl at "self-defecating"

My aunt loves listening to Urethra Franklin.

[LaComtesse]

When I worked in accounts many years ago, I had to open post addressed to the brought ledger dept .

[Madlentileater]

DS1 tells me there is a grind core band called Urethra Franklin. God knows what grind core is, but at least it seems they have wit.

[UnquietDad]

The boy newsreader on BBC-3 - the one who looks about 12 years old - said the other day, after the 8pm news:

"More from me on 9, at 3"

And, just before the sound faded, we heard "Oh, what?" (presumably as the director/ floor assistant in his earpiece told him what he had done!)

[schneebly]

lol - love these!

My Aunt who is not very bright (and also not very nice so it is okay to say this) was once so incensed by her daughter's treatment at school that she wrote to the Educational Omnibusman I didn't bother to correct her!

[SheikYerbouti]

My Aunt would not know grind core if it sat on her face and bit her on the arse.

Neither would I, for that matter

[gigglewitch]

RNF. at op and 'customs and exercise'...

[gigglewitch]

BTW, a colleague of mine is on a "low carbon diet"