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Q: List some malapropisms (the use of a word sounding somewhat like the
one intended).


A: Homophones
 I hope I have (piqued/peaked) your interest.
    -advertisement cited by William Safire, NY Times, November 13, 1993

Near homophones
 And to your humors changing, I tune my (subtle/supple) song.
    -Mary Higgins Clark, ''I'll Be Seeing You'', Pocket, New York, 1993, p. 123
 Can you (e/i)nsure that all is well?
 ... for all (intensive/intents and) purposes.
    -Observed in Usenet rec.puzzles article, 2/21/94
 He walked up to the (bespectacled/bespeckled) bank teller.
 Home is where the heart(h) is.
 I think you are taking the right tac(k/t).
 It's coming down the pi(p/k)e.
 I will ski(m)p over the specifics.
    -Solomon Feferman, American Mathematical Monthly, February 1999, p. 100
 I've been ra(c)king my brain the whole time.
    -Patricia D. Cornwell, ''All That Remains'', Avon, New York, 1993, p. 231
 Listen to the (blabbing/babbling) brook.
    -Norm Crosby
 ...men who were unaware of the Illuminati stronghold/stranglehold on the  Masons.
    -Dan Brown, ''Angels & Demons'', Pocket, New York, 2000, p. 39
 Music has charms to soothe the savage b(r)east.
 She gave him a (venomous/venenose) stare.
 She was (ravished/ravaged) by his gaze.
 That contraption looks j(er/u)ry-rigged. [[[probably from jerry-built]]
 That is a tough (row/road) to hoe.
 That will put a cr(a/i)mp in my style.
 The astronaut was hur(t)led into space.
 The car caree(n/r)s down the road.
 The horse is ch(a/o)mping on the bit.
 The organizer tried to (b)ring us in.
 The raft tipped and du(c/n)ked us all.
 The storm is wre(a/c)king havoc.
 The sun pe(a/c)ked out from behind clouds.
     -Patricia D. Cornwell, ''All That Remains'', Avon, New York, 1993, p. 36
 They felt the (temblor/trembler) shake the building.
 ... they tended to (parse/parcel) it out over long vacations.
     -Kim Masters, ''The Keys to the Kingdom'', Morrow, New York, 2000, p. 280
 We all must w(e/i)nd our way through life.
 We must inst(a/i)ll some discipline.
 We should try to ho(m/n)e in on the real issue.
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