Showing posts with label malapropism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label malapropism. Show all posts

Thursday, 10 July 2014

Double-take, # 80

New contributor Ryan McCarthy found this in Bristol, in a hotel that remains nameless because ‘It was nice so I don’t mean to damage their reputation!’ Fair enough.

Leaving aside the American spelling (‘It was an American-themed restaurant’), Ryan is pretty sure this is a mangle and I’m pretty sure he’s right:

world of port

Tuesday, 18 March 2014

Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 116

This starts with a failure to spellcheck and becomes worse as it goes along, culminating, as Des Pond of Slough observes, in a blissful mangle in the final sentence:

Link: Abbey Pumping Station Museum, Leicester
sicence; graffited; see-through bowel and cistern