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Thread #104142   Message #2128859
Posted By: Joe_F
18-Aug-07 - 08:03 PM
Thread Name: Malapropisms
Subject: RE: Malapropisms
Another quotation from the eponymous Mrs Malaprop (in Fowler s.v. malapropisms):

Sure, if I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs. (apprehend, vernacular, arrangement, epithets)

The line between malapropisms & eggcorns, and between them & folk etymologies, must sometimes be a fine one.