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  • To parallel a question posed in the previous thread: does anyone here know who Ordinal Malaprop is in "real life"?

    Archive 2007-06-03 Milosun Czervik 2007

  • To parallel a question posed in the previous thread: does anyone here know who Ordinal Malaprop is in "real life"?

    RL in SL (opinion by Owen Kelly) Milosun Czervik 2007

  • I called Malaprop’s in Asheville and had them send me a copy of every book they had on North Carolina legends.

    Wild Orchids Jude Deveraux 2003

  • C4N VOCABULARY: Jon "Malaprop" Snow appeared to invent two words during the course of an Interview with Sir Christopher Meyer.

    Channel 4 Factcheck: Cameron 70% Mendacious on Rape 2007

  • C4N VOCABULARY: Jon "Malaprop" Snow appeared to invent two words during the course of an Interview with Sir Christopher Meyer.

    Archive 2007-11-11 2007

  • Our Uncle Bernie was a true Mr. Malaprop, and he was invariably funny and outrageous, and at the same time always lovable and kind.

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: Family Matters Jack Canfield 2010

  • Our Uncle Bernie was a true Mr. Malaprop, and he was invariably funny and outrageous, and at the same time always lovable and kind.

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: Family Matters Jack Canfield 2010

  • Our Uncle Bernie was a true Mr. Malaprop, and he was invariably funny and outrageous, and at the same time always lovable and kind.

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: Family Matters Jack Canfield 2010

  • Our Uncle Bernie was a true Mr. Malaprop, and he was invariably funny and outrageous, and at the same time always lovable and kind.

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: Family Matters Jack Canfield 2010

  • Sure, in some sense they are an amusement, fringe clowns with misspelled signs and Malaprop mentalities, enjoying their days in the sun courtesy of a media driven by salaciousness and spectacle and an audience keen to rubberneck when given their cue.

    Steven Weber: To Er Is Human 2009

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