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Mrs. Malaprop's mangled prose set a president. (English language blunders)

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| January 01, 1995 | Kilpatrick, James J. | COPYRIGHT 1995 Smithsonian Institution. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

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 an apparently impecunious sailor. Lydia must promise to forget this fellow, Mrs. M. commands: "... illiterate him, I say, from your memory." Moreover, she warns, "Don't attempt to extirpate yourself from the matter; you know I have proof controvertible of it!" As The Rivals romps along, the dear dowager remarks that few gentlemen "know how to value the ineffectual qualities in a woman!" Lydia's affair has given Mrs. Malaprop the "hydrostatics." She is astonished at the girl's "insurance." Indeed, her niece is "as headstrong ...

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