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malapropism
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She also utilizes arbitrary mechanisms promoted by the French avant-garde Oulipo school and enriches her repertoire with deliberate malaprops and spoonerisms.
And there's the familiar catalogue of malaprops, including the candidate's pledge to revitalize the economy by "making the pie higher.
The public, presented with Bushisms rivaling Norm Crosby's malaprops, refuses to turn the president into a laughingstock on the order of former second-banana Dan Quayle.
 
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