Laura Robinson-Thomas is all
malaprops and flatulence as Lady Clem, Arthur's aunt and first chosen victim.
Richard Lederer, whose longtime love affair with our tortured tongue has brought us more than 30 books of hysterical grammatical gaffes,
malaprops, and bloopers.
She also utilizes arbitrary mechanisms promoted by the French avant-garde Oulipo school and enriches her repertoire with deliberate
malaprops and spoonerisms.
You start to notice little things that occur around you: accidental puns,
malaprops, mixed-up phrases.
That was as close as Ron came to mastering 'Rosicky', while the
malaprops proved contagious.
BILL WILL, Washington Newspaper Publishers Association: "Back in the late '70s or early '80s, the Lewiston Morning Tribune in Idaho had a sports copy editor infamous for
malaprops. His finest hour in the headline writing category was his offering for a wire story on then- famous distance runner Craig Virgin's triumph in Atlanta's Peachtree Classic road race: 'Virgin holds off 10,000 in Peachtree.'"