We've lately been running mondegreens in this space. Close cousins to mondegreens are malaprops. As with the mondegreens we've been running here, I have provided the correct wording below each malaprop or other error, for those of you who may recognize an error as such but momentarily cannot think what word was intended.
Guard rail
(Intended term: ring guard.)
-- Anonymous
Walter Matthews
(Intended name: Walter Matthau.)
-- Anonymous
Derricks in the bus station
(Intended word: derelicts.)
-- Anonymous
Every nook and corner
(Intended word: cranny.)
-- Anonymous
Hotty totty
(Intended expression: hoity toity)
-- Anonymous
Cellar phone
(Intended word: cellular)
-- Anonymous
Hospic
(Intended word: hospice)
-- Anonymous
Baccalaurea
(Intended word: baccalaureate)
-- Anonymous
Toys For Us
(Intended name: Toys R Us)
-- Anonymous
Peddles Flintstone
(Intended name: Pebbles)
-- Anonymous
Impersonable
(Intended word: impressionable)
-- Anonymous
Nudist column
(Intended word: colony)
-- Anonymous
High geranium
(Intended word: hydrangea)
-- Anonymous
Colanders
(Intended word: columns [reference was to architectural features])
-- Anonymous
Hemlock maneuver
(Intended term: Heimlich maneuver)
-- Anonymous
Shrader-rader
(Intended word: refrigerator [speaker was a child])
-- Biglee
Information Cooperation
(Intended name: Emancipation Proclamation.)
-- Frances Bunn, Snow Hill, NC.
Hiccup truck
(Intended word: pick-up)
-- Christine Hamilton
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
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