Regarding Mrs Malaprop's etymology, "mal à propos" is Frog for inappropriate, out of place.



Banjomad,


Read the posts from 25 June 2002 again more carefully.

If you want more detail on the coining of the word, follow the blue clickies in Stilly River Sage's post of 9 Jan 9.58.

It's all much more fun than ranting on about Bush and Thactcher, even though I do a lot of that myself.