What's the difference between malapropism and typo?
Malapropism
Definition:
(n.) A grotesque misuse of a word; a word so used.
Example Sentences:
(1) My mum, Olwen, was a bright and talkative woman who loved a gossip and a story, and was given slightly to malapropisms.
(2) Her Mrs Malaprop in Belgrade Theatre's touring production of Sheridan's The Rivals was hailed as "the play's vociferous focal point".
(3) In some patients, the combinative ambiguity or malapropism expresses the fear of reprisal through the transformation into a self-inflicted injury.
(4) The point is malapropisms and mispronunciations are fairly common.
Typo
Definition:
(n.) A compositor.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tennis Australia apologises for Bernard Tomic 'Hall of Shame' typo Read more When police arrived they allegedly told him he was being evicted from the hotel and gave him a trespass warning.
(2) Photograph: The Guardian “Tennis Australia sincerely apologises for the typo in the daily results service today,” the statement said.
(3) The messages are littered with typos, apparently the result of overzealous autocorrect settings, said Carlos Marín, director of Milenio, in an accompanying editorial.
(4) He suggested that it was "a typo, to be perfectly honest".
(5) Now I'd love to stay and chat all night, but unfortunately I have to correct all the typos in this report, insert gags where appropriate and remove all the bits where I slagged off Steven Gerrard, who is about to lift the Champions League trophy for Liverpool.
(6) Sounders official matchday Twitter account is claiming that having Shalrie Joseph listed as a forward for the Sounders is not a typo.
(7) No, that's not a typo for 'Steve Nash's back' This has been a strange week for injury news.
(8) But the obvious answer is the correct one: a typo renamed young striker Tommy Wright for the day.
(9) "I do remember finding my first typo when I was about five," she says.
(10) Unable to admit that his boss had been guilty of a simple typo, spokesman Sean Spicer – who back in January had pretended a small crowd was bigger than a big crowd – declared that “ The president and a small group of people know exactly what he meant ”.
(11) Ed Miliband makes a typo, Twitter eats itself Typos are par for the course on Twitter, of course.
(12) Mike Bergen (@BergenCapital) Hearing talks with troika break down again; troika negotiators walk out of meeting with labour minister October 16, 2012 Matt O'Brien (@ObsoleteDogma) Typo.
(13) But all this hardly makes a typo a trend; if it did, a whole lot of us are in trouble.
(14) Our deepest apologizes [sic] for the earlier typo.” The apology was subsequently corrected , and the first apology tweet deleted.
(15) Apologies for the earlier typo, and many thanks to the rival journalist - and baerchen below - for flagging it up.
(16) Those of you unfortunate enough to have seen the ads will know that we're all invited to a party with Jim White and Natalie Sawyer - BYOBB (the extra b's a typo) - to celebrate wildly as Peter Crouch completes a last-minute move to QPR.
(17) Conservative MP Philip Lee, who is a doctor, queried the government's claim that full compensation would cost £3bn, which he said was based on a "typo".
(18) But like many of you I’m hoping the game itself will do the job and keep my eyes open and the typos at bat bay.
(19) Then leave us all with 20yrs immense health bills.” Murdoch’s Twitter stream is also an endless source of typos and auto-correct fails.
(20) Click here to watch Mortdecai trailer The trailer shows a luxuriously moustached Depp travelling to Los Angeles, described as "a terribly vulgar place" and taking part in traditional aristocratic pastimes such as shooting peasants (no typo).