Saw this recently on a review forum: (Primary Care Person) (type of pregnancy). I thought they only did kidney stones . . . .
That's the kind of thing my mother used to say. It was hilarious at times when she said the wrong word for something. She once went into B&Q and asked if they had a tin of red durex paint!! You can imagine the picture that conjured up in my mind.
I know a few people who habitually use the wrong words for stuff... Accidents happen, but most people do not do it as a habit.
The 70's TV program "All in the family" had Carroll O'Connor who played Archie Bunker using substitute wrong words. Well thought out, they always made good one liners. Jerry
And here is another direct quote, in answer to a question about pain at the base of the thumb: Ah, the vagaries of the English language.
To funny. Our family talks like that on purpose. If it's raining out we will say; well there sure is a lot of humility in the air today.
Tooty, I know what you mean! When the small town we lived in 30 years ago was considering getting sewers, one person said the pending state law was "ambidextrous", meaning "ambiguous". We still say anything that is "iffy" is ambidextrous.
There is even a word for these misused terms. It is malapropisms from Mrs. Malaprop in Sheridan's play The Rivals. they are also called a 'dogberryisms" from Shakespeare's Officer Dogberry in Much Ado About Nothing.
