Examples of malapropism

• In this way, we are losing verbal harmonies and comedy as surely as we are losing refinements of meaning through the spread of malapropisms.

• Some of them even resisted it when the "critique" went to the extreme of absurdity and malapropism.

• It is however in the realm of informal discourse that all types of ludic word-forming - from malapropisms to homonymic puns - thrive most richly.

• Last, we look at how often detection of a malapropism led to correction of the error.

• The malapropism-insertion rate of one word in 200 was an arbitrary choice that seemed "sparse enough" to prevent the malapropisms from interacting with one another.

• The result, especially in the early chapters, is a text littered with an embrassingly large number of stylistic infelicities, orthographic mistakes and occasional malapropisms.

• Errors (17) and (18) can be interpreted as malapropisms.

• The word henhouse was also suspected of being a malapropism, but had no spelling variations.

• Nonetheless, taking relatedness too broadly will result in failing to detect malapropisms; they will be spuriously found to be related to their context.

• A malapropism is a perturbation of the cohesion (and coherence) of a text.

• First, the malapropisms that we are considering are primarily performance errors - slips in typing.

• The need for artificial data is obvious: there is no large-enough, naturally occurring annotated corpus of malapropisms.

• Specifically, the proportion of detected malapropisms for which the correct replacement was found ranged from 92% for scope = 1 to 97.4% for scope = max.

• Good editing is not one of them : it is scandalous that a university press should produce a text so littered with mistakes of spelling, syntactical blunders, and occasional malapropisms.

• Of these, however, eight could be interpreted as character blends, three as haplology, two as malapropisms, four as a misapplication of the tone sandhi rule, and two as rhythmic perseverations.