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Become a Fool: -Get out of debt -Learn how to invest -Retire early -Take control of your finances. Register to become a Fool! It's free. Get investment freebies too. Click here http://by.advertising.com/1/c/62072/37050/116166/116166 <a href="http://by.advertising.com/1/c/62072/37050/116166/116166"< AOL users click here </a< \----------------------------------------------------------------/ Word of the Day for Monday November 26, 2001: malapropism \mal-uh-PROP-iz-uhm\, noun: The usually unintentionally humorous misuse of a word, especially by confusion with one of similar sound; also, an example of such misuse. At 15, Rachel, the whiny would-be beauty queen who "cares for naught but appearances," can think only of what she misses: the five-day deodorant pads she forgot to bring, flush toilets, machine-washed clothes and other things, as she says with her willful gift for malapropism, that she has taken "for granite." --Michiko Kakutani, "'The Poisonwood Bible': A Family a Heart of Darkness," [1]New York Times, October 16, 1998 He also had, as a former colleague puts it, "a photogenic memory"--a malapropism that captures his gift for the social side of life, his Clintonian ability to remember names of countless people he has met only briefly. --Eric Pooley and S.C. Gwynne, "How George Got His Groove," [2]Time, June 21, 1999 _________________________________________________________ A malapropism is so called after Mrs. Malaprop, a character noted for her amusing misuse of words in Richard Brinsley Sheridan's comedy [3]The Rivals. References 1. http://www.nytimes.com/ 2. http://www.time.com/time 3. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0198319088/ref=nosim/lexico _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ You are currently subscribed to Dictionary.com Word of the Day as: susan.w.pereira@enron.com To subscribe to the list by email, send a blank message to: join-WordoftheDay@lists.lexico.com To unsubscribe via email, send a blank message to: leave-wordoftheday-301289Q@lists.lexico.com Subscriptions can be turned on and off from the Web at http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/list/ Dictionary.com Word of the Day http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/ (C) 2001, Lexico LLC.
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