Your mortification has brought me a very much-needed laugh. I hope that's at least some consolation.
I've been trying to decide if that'd be called a catachresis, a malapropism, or a good ol'-fashioned Freudian slip (aka parapraxis). The words for using the wrong word are the very best words of all.
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Date: 2007-11-01 02:51 am (UTC)I've been trying to decide if that'd be called a catachresis, a malapropism, or a good ol'-fashioned Freudian slip (aka parapraxis). The words for using the wrong word are the very best words of all.