Antedating of "Malapropism"

[Fred Shapiro]

malapropism (OED3 1830 Dec.)

1830 _Amer. Monthly Mag._ Oct. 486 (American Periodical Series)
What a world the man must live in, if the other malapropisms of this
ill-assorted planet strike him with similar impressions!

Fred Shapiro


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