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• Politically, they were at locker-
heads.
Editorial Assistant
In addition to malapropisms, one
can
find two other ism words —
It usually happens
Goldwynism
and Berraism. Samuel
when you are try-
Goldwyn and Yogi Berra are two leg-
ing to make a good
ends who have created flights of lin-
impression.
guistic fancy that have become memo-
For reasons yet
rable. Here are some choice ones as
to be identified, we
culled from Anguished English by
often choose the
Richard Lederer.
wrong word when
• I'll give you a definite maybe.
trying to make a
• A verbal contract isn't worth the
point. Maybe it
paper it's written on.
sounds like the word we want; maybe
• We're overpaying him, but he's
we have been mispronouncing the
worth it.
word all these years; maybe we have
• Don't talk to me while I'm inter-
just finished one of those use-the-
rupting.
word-ten-times-and-it's-yours regi-
• This book has too much plot and
mens. What ever the case, we come up
not
enough story.
,--?with an illiterate, but humorous usage
When I want your opinion, I'll
•
— a malapropism. The term comes
give it to you.
from the name of a character in
• In two words: im-possible.
Richard Sheridan's comedy The Rivals
• I read part of it all the way
who was noted for her misstatements.
through.
Here are some examples of big
Yogi Berra, the great Yankee catch-
word abusage:
er,
had his own brand of mutilation of
• I saw all those old testament
the
language.
houses.
Sometime you can observe a lot
•
• His elderly grandmother still has
by
watching.
\,= all her facilities.
• No wonder nobody comes here
• When a baby is born, they cut its
—
it's too crowded.
biblical cord.
Half the lies they tell me aren't
•
• He's a wealthy typhoon.
true.
• No phonographic pictures are
• If you can't imitate him, don't
allowed.
copy
him.
• You are in for a shrewd awaken-
A
story
makes the rounds that once
ing.
a
waitress
served
Berra a pizza and
Many
Jewish
people
hang
•
asked if he wanted it cut into four
masseuses from their doors.
slices or eight. "Better make it four,"
• It's a nice momentum of the occa-
-
he replied,. "I don't think I could eat
sion.
eight.
• That needs thinking about; let me
regurgitate for a few hours.
• His mother captured it on film
for prosperity.
• Salary commiserates with experi-
ence.
• He should sue for deformation of
character.
• I used a facetious name to dis-
LI1 I poor men, fat
guise my identity.
But that doesn't leave much room
• That pond has too much green
for the middle class.
allergy.

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