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Sorry, MG! I searched under "malapropisms" and "malaprop" and came up with nothing . . . so I started a new thread.  So, "radial alarm saw" was really a Mondegreen, eh?
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I've always felt that a Mondegreen should involve something being transmorgrified® into a name, but I seem to be rolling my own boat here. Trying to split them into hearing and saying seems a little hairsplitting. You gotta do both to each before they are noticed. Maybe Mrs Malaprop got married to Lord Mondegreen.
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mondegreen is in AHD4, which gives this: A series of words that result from the mishearing or misinterpretation of a statement or song lyric. For example, I led the pigeons to the flag for I pledge allegiance to the flag. here is malapropism from the same: Ludicrous misuse of a word, especially by confusion with one of similar sound.
so the source of both is in the hearing and the tetrapyloctomy comes mostly with words v. word.
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Personally, I prefer pentapyloctomy: that way you get five joints - two front leg joints, two rear ditto and that delicious saddle in between. Marinated in red wine for 24 hours, then cooked slowly with onions and carrots and served with potatoes and a green vegetable - you havea dinner fit for a king and queen! Oh, dammitall - I've turned it into a food thread! 
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the tetrapyloctomy comes mostly with words v. word. Shouldn't that be word vs. word vs. word vs. word? 
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Mondegreen comes for someone hearing the killed lord (so and so) and the Lady Mondegreen... when in reality the words were they laid him on the green...
And then there's that old hymn about the cock-eyed teddy bear called Gladly that goes "Gladly the cross-eyed bear"....
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Dear Rubrick: The cross-eyed bear had many creators. Cross my heart, and hope to die,
when I was too young to go, my brother came home from Suday school, and told my
mother they had sung a song about a bear who was named Gladly who was cross-eyed.
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my brother came home from Suday school
Not to mention discovering God's name:
Our Father, which art in Heaven, Harold be Thy name.
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Some hilarious examples that I have recently read, come from Bush Jr. There is a whole list of them on Slate, complete with a Bushism of the day! Of course, not all Bushisms are Malapropisms, some are, well....
A recent addition and an absolutely priceless one too:
"I know something about being a government. And you've got a good one."—Stumping for Gov. Mike Huckabee, Bentonville, Ark., Nov. 4, 2002
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To of Troy
Hope your foot is feeling better. You might want to check that crossword again, we call them metacarpals not metapharsals. But then the main reason we don't call them hand bones is to sound more eddicated and high falutin.
(would a meta-farcial be a really big comedy?)
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