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Um . . .(Um. . .: Slips, Stumbles, and Verbal Blunders, and What They Mean )(Brief article)(Book review)
Fascinated by the media's "fetishized" portrayal of George W. Bush's malapropisms, Erard sets out to write "a work of applied blunderology" to explain how individuals acquire a particular verbal style, and why it matters when that style doesn't match listeners' expectations. The result is a historical catalogue of verbal gaffes, from spoonerisms and Freudian slips to "eggcorns"--wrong words, such as "pre-emptory," that some-times make it into the ...
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