[Sca-cooks] Old?

Decker, Terry D. TerryD at Health.State.OK.US
Thu Jun 14 06:47:19 PDT 2001


Mrs. Malaprop first appears in Richard Brinsley Sheridan's play The Rivals
in 1775.  First use of the term malapropism seems to be 1849.

Bear

> what was the periods of Ms Malapropos and Rev Spooner ?  {Sorry about
> spellings, the F7 key isn't that well educated yet} You just
> might "blame
> it" as being period in the aforementioned styles. Smile,  it
> might be fun...
> I hide when the Fibro Fog hits or pass it off as 'practice'
> for my senior
> moments.



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