E-Publishing and the Re-birth of Malapropism, Misspellings, Mistakes and Mayhem

They say anyone can be published these days thanks to e-publishing, blogging, social networking and so on. It’s seems that’s true, malapropism, misspellings, mistakes mayhem and all. Here are a few gems:

One person was enjoying researching her family tree and wondered if she might become a gynaecologist one day.

Another was worried about his grammar as she was all over the place and he thought she might be drunk.

Alas, pity the criminal described as lacking morals and being roofless.

Perhaps he was discovered by the detective who was feeling rather pleased with himself, having spotted a man, lurking in the corner, acting auspiciously.

Though you have to feel for the poor chap who was working away in his lab, trying to save the love of his life, but couldn’t get the anecdote quite right.

Then there’s the smart man, wearing his 3-piece-suite, which sadly didn’t fit him very well.

Nonetheless, rather that than being a man who had had enough of his neighbours and was feeling irrigated.

A vivid image is portrayed by the lady who had returned to work after an absence and was relishing her new roll in the limelight.

She may have known the lady who couldn’t eat another mouthful of desert.

At least she wasn’t the one who was waiting nervously by her front door, waiting for her male to pop through the letterbox.

I’m sure you’ve come across many others. I’d love to read them, if you’d like to share.

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Laughter

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22 responses to “E-Publishing and the Re-birth of Malapropism, Misspellings, Mistakes and Mayhem”

  1. Good ones, Esther! I’m rather worried about the irrigated man! 😀😀

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  2. You made me smile, Esther. Thanks!

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    1. Glad you enjoyed it 🙂

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    1. Many thanks for reblogging 🙂

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      1. My pleasure, Esther 😃

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    paulandruss

    Great selection of classics Esther. I wonder if the fact his 3 piece suite didn’t fit him left the man a little chairy of revisiting his Taylor?

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    1. Thank you for your comment 🙂

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  4. The first one that comes to mind is the “young, unexpired ensign” in some story I read online several years ago. There was also something about a dead body in a moratorium.

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  5. One I found before I sent to you for editing!
    … no memory of the night, save a ‘tinkle’ in his ear every time that she is near.

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    1. Ha! Ha! Love it, Eric 🙂

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    andyandbev

    This reminds me of the time my mother was having problems with a crossword she was doing. I asked her to read out the clue she was stuck on. “layered desert” she said.
    We struggled for ages until i asked if I could have look at the puzzle. turns out the clue was “layered dessert”

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    1. Brilliant! Love it 🙂

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  7. Loved these and could have read a lot more or, in other words more please !!. Putting my other boot on, or whatever the image is, as a writer of blog posts and the odd book I know how easily errors can seep into your script. Simple errors like “were” instead of “where” and possibly greater horrors such as the ones you’ve given us so.

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    1. Glad you enjoyed them 🙂

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  8. They’re great. I still cringe (and laugh) at the time I sent you an assignment, alleging that I was photographing soft fluffy desserts in Finland instead of large elks when I used the wrong spelling of moose – I’ll never make that mistake again!

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    1. Ha! We all do it, Fiona. Hope you’re well 🙂

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  9. […] the mistakes, malapropisms and misspellings that are easily made, so in November 2017, I wrote a fun post about […]

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  10. Funny! I cringed. Especially for the gal enjoying her new roll. I could have and have easily done some of those, usually I make mistakes in my title. Yikes!

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    1. It’s so easy to do!

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      1. Amen! So easy. I’d love to hear the story of how you met your partner at blogger bash sometime!

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