Going to Hell in a Hen Basket: An Illustrated Dictionary of Modern Malapropisms

"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 nonsense....