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Gather Ye Eggcorns While Ye May

I invented this malapropism! I invented this malapropism!

Thanks to all who chimed in during my malapropism series. What better way to pass the time than appreciating our language in all its depth, eloquence and quirks?

I’m taking a few weeks ‘off the blogging beat and path’ to ratchet up bike miles, ogle some aspens, sneak in a couple rounds of golf with Dad, and celebrate a bunch of family birthdays.

I will be reading your posts occasionally, and will return here in October.  Stay healthy, safe and keep writing!

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Mighty Oaks from Little Eggcorns Grow

This post is Day Five of the 5 Day 5 Photo Challenge in which I feature malapropisms.

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Language has historically been a written and audio tool to distinguish social classes. Authors and playwrights – think Dickens, Shakespeare and Moliere – used malapropisms in dialogue when those from a lower class wished to appear educated while speaking to a higher-up. Their attempts to use proper words and grammar often resulted in a mangled phrase or two. (more…)

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Snoop Doggy Doors

This post is Day Four of the 5 Day 5 Photo Challenge in which I feature malapropisms.

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It was 2am one wintry February night and I was playing with a photo app. Little did I know when I stuffed my ‘fun house-ish’ doors in my virtual photo folder, they’d come in handy for Norm Frampton’s Thursday Doors.

Thumbing through Robert Alden Rubin’s going to hell in a hen basket malapropism dictionary for an appropriate D phrase, I came upon ‘doggy-dog’. (more…)

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Cluster-fudge

This post is Day Three of the 5 Day 5 Photo Challenge in which I feature malapropisms.

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This massive, expanding thunderhead is representative of what passed overhead throughout the months of May, June and July when daily afternoon rains kept our foothills green far longer than normal. (more…)

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Drone-ing In On the Homing Pigeon

This post is Day Two of the 5 Day 5 Photo Challenge in which I feature malapropisms.

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Raqi and her buddy are at Spark’s football game. Because they are obviously ignoring the action, I looked for a malapropism having to do with ‘hiding.’ (more…)

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