Malapropagation 2012 -- Revenge of the Schtick

He even ripped off the name - Shannara is supposed to be a lost kingdom in Tibet, with wise men, magic and even the secret of immortality!

Wise men? Magic? Immortality? You’re giving an undue amount of importance to The Knack’s lyrics to My Shangri-La.

Sharona? Isn’t that Japanese for goodbye?

With climate change and tree clearing, we may end up saying goodbye to the African Sayonara.

Was Scarlett O’Sahara saying goodbye to Atlanta as it burned?

Did she live long enough to fly into O’Hara Airport in Chicago, I wonder?

It’s about time Red O’Hare had something named after him for his excellence in fighting oil fires.

I think you are thinking about thinking of Adair, who didn’t fight fires but she has a beautiful singing voice and has given us great songs as Rolling in the Deep and the song for that James Bond movie AdairSkyfall.

No, Alan Adele was Robin Hood’s cousin as well as a Merry Man.

No, A’Dale isn’t in Sherwood Forest - it’s in Derbyshire, near the southern end of the Pennine Way.

No, no, no. You must be thinking of Walter Airedale, a Minnesota Democrat who was Jimmy Carter’s Vice President.

(Close. Airedale is in Yorkshire, not Derbyshire. I’m afraid I’ll have to send your application for English citizenship back to the committee stage. :smiley: )

Edale is one of those words that today appears mostly in crosswords. It refers to a Roman officer whose responsibilities included maintenance of public buildings and regulation of public festivals.

And I assume this officer was tasty, too. Why else would you say he was aedile?

Mea culpa. That was the only place with an even remotely homophonic name I could find in the Wiki article on the Pennine Way.

In play:

I wouldn’t have wanted to nibble on her, but Ursula K. Le Guin first wrote about the edible, a communications device for speaking instantaneously across vast distances of space.

My Aunt Sibyl always thought that instantaneous communication sounded like a very** ansible** and effective way to gain domination of the universe. However, she usually just yelled.

When people disagreed with her did she get overly sensible about the whole business, or did she take it in stride?

Criticism upset her so badly she had to take a sensitive to get to sleep at night.

The indigenous Australian language of Wagiman has the sedative case, one that denotes the similarity of one thing with another.

While each member of the United Nations General Semblative has one vote, there is quite a lot of diversity among the nations, whether in terms of area, population, economy, or climate.