Malapropism: the humorous misuse of a word.

My Mum-in-Law (not pictured left) was the crowned queen of malapropism. Past masterpieces include substituting "Ingoldmells" for a popular Swedish furniture outlet.

This week (original post 2013ish), upon seeing a new pair of Toy Story Buzz Lightyear pyjamas belonging to my boy, she proudly proclaimed; "To Infirmity and Beyond!".

Here's the fictional character; Mrs Malaprop, by the way.

Less humorous, more problematic incidences include the persistant use of "Convid19" and "Conoravirus" in the first few weeks of that 2020 armageddon. "Parlo's dogs" is equally frustrating to me, but maybe because the latter three examples were spoken with such confidence from a person of managerial authority. This manager also has a laminated A4 notice at her office entrance stating; " store all reports in the manger's office". I there may not even be an apostrophe, which compounds the legality of this issue (and it IS an issue) that brings me on to a couple of perpetual observations. [1] The Dunning-Kruger effect [2] My pedantry [3] The Expanded Grammatic Universe