My father was unwittingly a master at these. A malapropisms is defined as "the usually unintentionally humorous misuse or distortion of a word or phrase, especially the use of a word sounding somewhat like the one intended but ludicrously wrong in the context." I love these - can't help having fun with words since that's my vocation.
While I was discussing the finer points of Movable Type and blogging with my Lovely Sister (LS) who posts at Arrrgh! my youngest daughter who I will dub Curly Fry, was preparing hot chocolate for me. (Not that it was cold outside - yet - but we were "practicing" because our forecast was hinting at snow for today.) I heard her tell her father that she was annoyed that she couldn't use the marshmallows because they were "expirated"!
I snorted through my next sentence with LS, trying to explain what I had just heard. I am so sure that my father's genes have passed through me and are firmly planted in my youngest! You gotta love that!
