Subject: Malaprops

Malaprops:

The mistaken use of a word or words in place of a similar-sounding one – as in, television character Archie Bunker’s utterance of "birth patrol pills.” Here are some we’ve come across.

I could hear footprints.

It’s irrevelant.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

Ye is the plurable of you.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

You could have knocked me down with the weather!

(1971 – ) American actress

She's really tough; she's remorseful

English runner

To make the drawers work better, rub them with paraphernalia.

Won by your distinguished incrumbent.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

That guy is a blackbuster.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

Why y’all duded up lookin’ like Errol Slim?

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

… baby lying in the bassinoot.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

I let my prescription run out on that magazine.

They live in a two-storage house.

Santa’s Guh-nomes.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

The printer is out of order – sorry for the incontinence.

Just 'cause there's snow in the basement don't mean there ain't no fire in the roof!

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

Oh say can you see, by the dawn’s early light. What so proudly we hailed. Of thee I sing.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

A horse divided against itself cannot stand.

I guess you could say I'm an internal optometrist.

Shirley Temple was never as good as Bojangles George Murphy.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

One man's goose is another man's dander.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

You’re a chimp off the old block.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)