In this way, we are losing verbal harmonies and comedy as surely as we are losing refinements of meaning through the spread of malapropisms.From theCambridge English Corpus
Some of them even resisted it when the "critique" went to the extreme of absurdity andmalapropism.From theCambridge English Corpus
It is however in the realm of informal discourse that all types of ludic word-forming - from malapropisms to homonymic puns - thrive most richly.From theCambridge English Corpus
Last, we look at how often detection of amalapropismled to correction of the error.From theCambridge English Corpus
Themalapropism-insertion rate of one word in 200 was an arbitrary choice that seemed "sparse enough" to prevent the malapropisms from interacting with one another.From theCambridge English Corpus
The result, especially in the early chapters, is a text littered with an embrassingly large number of stylistic infelicities, orthographic mistakes and occasional malapropisms.From theCambridge English Corpus
Errors (17) and (18) can be interpreted as malapropisms.From theCambridge English Corpus
The word henhouse was also suspected of being amalapropism, but had no spelling variations.From theCambridge English Corpus
Nonetheless, taking relatedness too broadly will result in failing to detect malapropisms; they will be spuriously found to be related to their context.From theCambridge English Corpus
Amalapropismis a perturbation of the cohesion (and coherence) of a text.From theCambridge English Corpus
First, the malapropisms that we are considering are primarily performance errors - slips in typing.From theCambridge English Corpus
The need for artificial data is obvious: there is no large-enough, naturally occurring annotated corpus of malapropisms.From theCambridge English Corpus
Specifically, the proportion of detected malapropisms for which the correct replacement was found ranged from 92% for scope = 1 to 97.4% for scope = max.From theCambridge English Corpus
Good editing is not one of them : it is scandalous that a university press should produce a text so littered with mistakes of spelling, syntactical blunders, and occasional malapropisms.From theCambridge English Corpus
Of these, however, eight could be interpreted as character blends, three as haplology, two as malapropisms, four as a misapplication of the tone sandhi rule, and two as rhythmic perseverations.From theCambridge English Corpus
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