Move over Mrs. Malaprop!
(Canscene) — Sheridan’s 18th century comedy The Rivals introduced Mrs. Malaprop, a woman given to blunders in the use of the English language. Here are just a couple: “He is the very pineapple (pinnacle) of success”and “I have since laid Sir Anthony’s preposition (proposition) before her.”
However the rights to recognition as the crowned head of the malapropism must now surely pass to the formere president of the United States.
It’s a matter of record that in his speeches, he used such words as “anecdotes” when he shoild have said “antidotes” and “perpetuators” instead of “perpetrators.” The Toronto Star recently listed 40 such glaring examples which suggest that the former president is a master at spooking the English language.
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February 1st, 2009 at 8:12 pm
What I can’t figure out is how come he wasn’t monitored more closely for his public speaking engagements once it was know how badly he would mangle the English language – still his mistakes were very funny weren’t they?
February 6th, 2009 at 9:39 am
Yes Brenda and all the more reason why we should keep ridiculing the worst president ever. It seems we’ll never be able to nail him on war crime chatrges, along with Blair, bu there’s no reason we should forget his culpability.