...but your knowledge surprises mine!
ROTFLMAO! ![[rotflmao]](https://threestooges.net/forums/Smileys/default/rofl.gif "Rolling on the Floor Laughing My Ass Off")
Now there's a malapropism worthy of the Stooges if ever I heard one! 
My mother always referred to Mr. Spock of "Star Trek" as "Dr. Spock," and I don't know whether that qualifies as a malapropism. You'd have to ask Mrs. Malaprop herself (or Richard Brinsley Sheridan). But they're both so dead that they couldn't tell you!
Dictionary definition:
Malaprop, n., after Mrs. Malaprop, a character in
The Rivals, a play by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, from
malapropos:Word History: “She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile” and “He is the very pineapple of politeness” are two of the absurd pronouncements from Mrs. Malaprop that explain why her name became synonymous with ludicrous misuse of language.
A character in Richard Brinsley Sheridan's play
The Rivals (1775), Mrs. Malaprop consistently uses language
malapropos, that is, inappropriately.
The word malapropos comes from the French phrase mal à propos, made up of mal, “badly,” à, “to,” and propos, “purpose, subject,” and means “inappropriate.”
The Rivals was a popular play, and Mrs. Malaprop became enshrined in a common noun, first in the form malaprop and later in malapropism, which is first recorded in 1849.
Perhaps that is what Mrs. Malaprop feared when she said, “If I reprehend any thing in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!”
So
there!![[pound]](https://threestooges.net/forums/Smileys/default/pound.gif "Pound")
And a Murray Crispness to Owls!
