[Ads-l] Antedating of "Malapropism"

Shapiro, Fred fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
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malapropism (OED 1830)

1826 _London Magazine_ Jan. 82 (ProQuest)  Lady Morgan, in her happiest moments of French, never surpassed this malapropism.

Fred Shapiro

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