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The Rivals , a play by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, is a comedy of manners in five acts. It was first performed on 17 January 1775. The Rivals was Sheridan's second commercially produced play. At t...
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Mrs. Malaprop's Malapropisms ... Here are some of the original malapropisms from the lady herself: Mrs. Malaprop in Richard Sheridan's play The Rivals (1775). ... In case you're not sure what it is that Mrs. Malaprop is intending to say we've put the correct word(s) in square brackets after each quotation.
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The self-educated Mrs. Malaprop was always substituting a similar-sounding word for the word that she actually intended, often with the consequence of a hilariously nonsensical sentence.
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Mrs. Malaprop: The character Mrs. Malaprop in Richard Brinsley Sheridan's play The Rivals (1775) is noted for constantly using a wrong word with a sound resembling the right one. ... Now readers of your website, blog-post, or any other web content can enjoy full access to this article on Mrs. Malaprop ,
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From Mrs. Malaprop, a character in Richard Sheridan's play (1775), whose comic trait was her ludicrous misuse of words, we get the word is the striking misuse of a word or phrase that sounds somewhat similar to another word or phrase.
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The terms malapropism and the earlier variant malaprop come from Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s 1775 play The Rivals, and in particular the character Mrs. Malaprop. See The Rivals on the Abbey stage until 19 September 2009;
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The 1775 Restoration comedy, The Rivals, by Richard Sheridan introduced the humorous character, Mrs. Malaprop. Her name comes from the French mal à propos, which means inappropriate. The self-educated Mrs. Malaprop was always substituting a similar-sounding word for the word that she intended to use.
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Free article about 'Mrs. Malaprop's mangled prose set a president. (English language blunders)' at AccessMyLibrary.com. Search information that libraries trust! ... Mrs. Malaprop sails onto the stage in Act One, her spinnaker flying madly. At once she assails her niece, the lissome Lydia Languish, who has fallen for...
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Summary: Proofread, proofread, proofread. How many times do I have to say it? Oh, and don't depend on spell-checkers to put words in your mouth! ... Mrs. M was, it appears, her generation's equivalent of Yogi Berra: a veritable fountain of linguistic errors. Mrs. Malaprop is Alive and Well; You can't spend much time on...
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