A student describing the Articles of Confederation:
"It was far from full proof."
Friday, July 16, 2010
It feels really special, but it's kind of smelly
A student answering whether or not we worship our government:
"We put them up on a pedistool."
"We put them up on a pedistool."
Monday, May 17, 2010
Causing laughter because of absurdity; provoking or deserving derision; ridiculous; laughable....
When a student mistakenly substitutes Ludacris for ludicrous....
Thursday, April 29, 2010
A new wing of the hospital
Appearing in a student's essay:
What is a dogberry?
A malapropism (also called a Dogberryism or acyrologia) is the substitution of a word for a word with a similar sound, in which the resulting phrase makes no sense but often creates a comic effect.
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