The Wrong Word Entirely, # 11

It would appear that The Telegraph’s Senior Political Correspondent, Christopher Hope, likes this mangled word, since he went out of his way to quote it in an article:

Link: The Telegraph, ‘Government’s £1bn rural broadband plan “a train crash waiting to happen”’

It's not entirely clear who coined it;* presumably it arrived on a press release.

* Actually, coined is not entirely accurate: there are other instances, including an article by N. Jolly in the North West Evening Mail from 17 September 2005. Here, it’s found in the title and, given the subject matter, it’s jolly hard (bad pun, but had to be done) to decide whether it’s deliberate or an error. This is the title: ‘Apopleptic over Apostrophes’. However, since the focus is incorrect apostrophes, apopleptic is probably not being used to make a point at all…