Monday, April 24, 2023

Malaprops I've heard and read

What they said versus what they meant or should have meant to say:
For all intensive purposes - For all intents and purposes
Purport - comport
Problematic, problematical - a problem
Dynamical - dynamic
Illicit a response - elicit a response
Glance over - gloss over
Come to the foray - come to the fore
In toto - in total
In total - in toto
Inaction - in action
Prescribe to - subscribe to
Prescribe - proscribe
Insure - ensure
Contemporaneously - contemporary
Casual - causal
Good - well
Electronical - electronic
Deep seeded - deep seated
First seed - first seat
Pass time - pastime
Past time - pastime 
Colloquially - collectively
I'm not going to enact that labor - I'm not going to explain myself
Daring-do - derring-do
Hare's breath - hair's breadth
Interior motive - ulterior motive
Analogical - analog
Mute point - moot point
Digitalize - digitize
Palatable - palpable
Regulated - relegated
Hone in on - Home in on
Not put a fine tooth point on it - not to put too fine a point on it
Wizened - wise
Apart - a part
Clean-cut - clear-cut
Regimen - regime
Into - in to
Reticent - reluctant
Passably - passively
Went down - gone down
Fermented - fomented as in to foment rebellion or foment change
Wroten - written or wrote
Broughten - brought
Boughten - bought
Self-depreciating - self-deprecating
Pacific - specific
Conversating - conversing
Could of, should of, would of - could have, should have, would have
Orientated - oriented
Defying new standards - defining new standards
Lose - loose
Periodically - intermittently
Martyr - pariah
Eminent - imminent
Citate - cite
Complimentary - complementary
Compliment - complement
Degradate - degrade
Misunderestimated - underestimated
Characteristical - characteristic
Epitaph - epithet
Revelation - revolution
Effect - affect
Affect - effect
Is - are
Are - is
Went - gone
Dwell - delve
Cosigned to the past - consigned to the past
Dissidence - dissonance
Configurating - configuring
Saw - seen
Seen - saw
Aloud - allowed
Advice - advise
"cutting off her nose,in spite of herself" - Cut off her nose to spite her face

Of course, the perennial "your, you're" and "their, they're, there"

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