A Modern-Day Mr. Malaprop
What Is A Malaprop? “E gag, man!” exclaims the man sitting across from me in our regular Sunday morning brunch booth. “What’s that?” I say, smiling. “E… gag?” “Yeah,” he says, “It’s…um, Latin. It means when you’re really aspirated with someone.” Of course he means e gad; perhaps even e gads. And I know he means exasperated instead of aspirated. I am, in fact, having brunch with a modern-day Mr. Malaprop. A malapropism is a word that means... Read More
