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Malapropism!

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Steve NordRunner
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11:16pm, 29 Mar 2023
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I wouldn't be surprised, but after google found Islandic water flavoured with Tahitian lime my life lost its sparkle.
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Across the piste, mistaken version of the very annoying biz-speak phrase "across the piece". I thought my boss was trying to coin a new skiing based metaphor, but no, a genuine misunderstanding of the phrase.

Is larks due to tell is about his aunt's Iranian ostriches again?! :-) G
3M
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"The activity has been completed, but we didn’t receive any intimation mail, can you please conform weather the activity is completed or not."

(In fairness, English isn't their first language, and that's a lot better than my Guajarati would be! But it made me smile.)
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I've just bought some Ant 🐜 killing stuff....

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The word "malapropism" (and its earlier variant "malaprop") comes from a character named "Mrs. Malaprop" in Richard Brinsley Sheridan's 1775 play The Rivals. Mrs. Malaprop frequently misspeaks (to comic effect) by using words which don't have the meaning that she intends but which sound similar to words that do.
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