Thursday, April 29, 2010

A new wing of the hospital

Appearing in a student's essay:

"Does this automatically mean that Joe Taxpayer really needs to foot the bill for a child that for all intensive purposes shouldn’t even be in our country?"

Seen on Facebook

"She has great stage presents!"

At least not from this web page...

"...there is no end in site to this problem."

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.