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September 09, 2009
Malapropism
Malapropism is Dictionary.com's word of the day.
Which got me thinking...I wonder what other words are derived from character names. I can't think of any. Faustian maybe, but that's capitalized so it's kind of cheating.
(In case you didn't know: "A malapropism is so called after Mrs. Malaprop, a character noted for her amusing misuse of words in Richard Brinsley Sheridan's comedy The Rivals.")
Posted by Selena at September 9, 2009 03:56 PM