<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/ed67264b-3f9c-4d64-bfce-6ab870d242e1/79FE8A51-5AAE-41A8-87CE-84F955D8CA9F/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/Mrs-Malaprops-mangled-prose-set-a-president.html" href="http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/Mrs-Malaprops-mangled-prose-set-a-president.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.smithsonianmag.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/Mrs-Malaprops-mangled-prose-set-a-president.html"><H1 id="articleTitle" class="clear-left"> Mrs. Malaprop's mangled prose set a president </H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/Mrs-Malaprops-mangled-prose-set-a-president.html"><P>Richard Sheridan's comedy <I>The Rivals</I> is not widely staged today, but I know, as a writer of a weekly column on the use and abuse of the English language, Mrs. Malaprop lives on. Her giddy ghost sits on a filing cabinet in my office, where she presides over a thousand exhibits of howlers, boners, gaffes, and myriad felonies and misdemeanors committed upon the English language. Here is the sort of thing her blessed shade inspires. Furniture dealers sell "French prevential" beds, sofas by "Duncan Fife," and "naughty pine." An Ohio rescue squad had to find a "wench to lift a tractor" off an injured farm worker.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/Mrs-Malaprops-mangled-prose-set-a-president.html">Do writers in foreign languages have the same problems we have in English? Are things growing worse, as public education slackens? Perhaps it is best to listen to Mrs. M., just before the curtain falls: "No delusions to the past!" With all its perils and pitfalls, English remains the loveliest language of them all. </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/79FE8A51-5AAE-41A8-87CE-84F955D8CA9F/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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