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Malapropisms, interrogative and compound words

One of the problems with the use of homophones is malapropism. Malapropism is the unconscious habit of using similar-sounding words wrongly; often, with an unintended touch of humour. It is a practice that, unnoticed, might be a common problem with newspaper stories.

A few cases were brought to my attention last week by a reader who has been following this column.

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