My older brother telling me about his “prostrate” medicine making him faint dead away. I guess it worked.
‘God’ with a capital, as if he’s on the national register or something.
No fixed abode.
Huh? Your cite says " Although detractors believed that the word was a neologism as well as a malapropism coined by Harding (as opposed to the more accepted term normality), there was contemporary discussion and evidence found that normalcy had been listed in dictionaries as far back as 1857."
I had never heard that word until after 9/11. I thought then it was a neologism 
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Goddammit, I don’t care that “irony” doesn’t mean what we want it to mean. I want to redefine it just so we can apply it to situations like this!
Even if you believe God is a fictional character, don’t you capitalize the proper names of fictional characters? Do you refuse to capitalize Zeus or Thor?
Well, a ‘god’ is an all-powerful deity, I dunno where we got this frigging Judeo-Christian-Islamic notion that there’s only one god and he’s called ‘God’.
Kinda cheeky really, would be like my parents naming me ‘Son’.
I’ve done that too.
I’ve “dis-understood” people before.
When my son was in the high school marching band, he used to play the disphonium. (Which pretty well described how he played, at least for the first couple of weeks)
When working on a project, I’ve “guesstimated” the cost, amount of supplies, and time required - usually way low, too.
I help my wife in the kitchen by loading and unloading the “washdisher”.
There are more of these, I’m sure, but I disremember them at the moment.
Hmm. Does it count as a “linguistic disaster” if it was deliberately written to be one for humor? 
I once heard a physician use the phrase “…for all intensive purposes…”:smack:
I hate that one. I find it really flusterating!