0 the wrong use of one word instead of another word because they sound similar to each other, with results that are unintentionally funny
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.
