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is malaprops an actual word? i thought malapropism was the correct grammar? i need to check on this.



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The word derives from the name of a character, Mrs. Malaprop, in an 18th century British play by Sheridan.

A person's name which gives rise to a "thing" is an eponym. An analagous situation will be that years from now, if a man shoves a quart-bottle of milk up his ass, it will be known as "Lockwooding", after the eponymous Kurt Lockwood.
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