The Malaprop Thread!

[QUOTE=Zeldar]
I’ve heard quite a few people refer to the ailment as Old Timer’s.
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I have, too, but I always assume it’s a joke.

[QUOTE=Ellen Cherry]
Regarding “aggregated,” I had a college roommate who was a tad dim. I asked if I could read her People magazine I saw laying on her desk and she said, “Sure, anytime. I have a perscription.”
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So aside from substituting prescription for subscription, she also pronounced prescription wrong? It’s double the dumb!

I was helping my boyfriend’s aunt move, and for some reason she had a ton of dressers to move. Like 2 in each bedroom.

She kept calling them “Chester drawers,” meaning, I think, “chest of drawers.” I was going to correct her because there were so many, it really grated on me…but my boyfriend says it too! I think it is a family thing.

[QUOTE=OpalCat]
So aside from substituting prescription for subscription, she also pronounced prescription wrong? It’s double the dumb!
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Ha! No, I think I was just dumb with my spelling!

[QUOTE=Ellen Cherry]
Ha! No, I think I was just dumb with my spelling!
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Oh whoops, sorry then. I didn’t mean any offense by making fun of it. We can all make typos!