Going to Hell in a Hen Basket

“A pain staking but hilarious journey amidst the strings and arrows of language misfortune . . . The result is the perfect gift book for word nerds.” — Brevity Malapropism—A word or phrase that has been mistaken for another, usually because of its sound rather than its meaning. Everyone has made the mistake of using a word or phrase that they think sounds correct, but in fact is not. Malapropisms make some sense. They have a semantic logic to them, even if that logic makes perfect