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I may soon have to rename this blog Greek Word du Jour. I’m frankly surprised they managed to create one of the most sophisticated and influential cultures of the modern world – where [...]

A malapropism (mal-a-prop-izm) is a phrase in which one or more of the words is substituted with another, rendering the phrase or sentence completely nonsensical. The origin of the word is from Richard Sheridan’s Restoration comedy The Rivals, in which one of the characters, Mrs Malaprop, makes such mistakes on a regular basis. Her name [...]