Nigerian malaproppery

[Mark A. Mandel]

Usually it takes me considerably less than a second to recognize a Nigerian
scam spam letter and delete it, assuming I have not already deleted it from
the subject line index. But a word in the first paragraph of this one caught
my attention and I thought it was worth sharing with the rest of you word
freaks.

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DONATION FOR THE CHILDREN OF GOD!!

From: Mrs. Mariam Alfred Williams

Dearest in the Lord.

PLEASE ENDEAVOUR TO USE IT FOR THE CHILDREN OF GOD.

I am the above named person from Ghana. I am married to Dr Alfred
Williams who worked with Ghanaian embassy in South Africa for nine
years before he died in the year 2002.We were married for eleven years
without a child. He died after an epigrammatic illness that lasted for
only four days. Before his death we were both Christians. [...]

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-- Mark Mandel, Lord High Elocutioner*
[This text prepared with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.]

* I was so dubbed by the husband of a fellow cast member of "The Filkado"
(http://www.mcgath.com/filkado.html) on the basis of my role therein as Dr.
McKoko, the Lord High Evil Genius, combined with the signature I use when
being linguistical in non-linguistic Internet environments:

-- Dr. Whom, Consulting Linguist, Grammarian,
    Orthoepist, and Philological Busybody
    a.k.a. Mark A. Mandel