Our House has a Wisteria growing on the front of the house, I love to wind up my OH by telling people in her hearing range that we have Listeria, its even worse in the back garden I call the Clematis Chlamydia I just waiting for me or OH to forget and ask at the garden centre if they have Chlamydia
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Our family have a few traditional ones ('dressin' down' for wearing over pyjamas is one of them) but it's not a case of the wrong word by accident (although it probably started there) but it's a family game!
They don't get used as much any more, it was mainly Dad who used them.Flowers come in too many colours to see the world in black-and-white.
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I had some teeth pulled at the weekend and had to go back to the dentist yesterday so he could check they were doing OK....felt a bit of a p**t when I told him I was worried about getting dry rot.....I knew I meant dry socket!the fates lead him who will;him who won't they drag.
Happiness is not having what you want,but wanting what you have.xx
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I'm sure some of you already know, but using the wrong word especially words which sound the same is called a Malapropism after Mrs Malaprop, a character in an eighteenth-century British comedy The Rivals by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Her name comes from the French mal + proposer "badly for the purpose".
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Originally posted by binley100 View PostOh and I renamed Bren's sausage casserole recipe today to a sauserole!
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Residents calling in to the council to complain that their 'refuge' hasn't been collected.
and our family name for a casserole is 'cows a*se'ole'Last edited by Littlemouse; 03-02-2010, 09:35 PM.
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