This episode investigates obscure words for discussions about error, tracing their origins and familiar words from the same root. Words examined include solecism, lapsus calami, amphibology, defalcation, misfeasance and mea culpa.
Discover the mistaken beliefs that gave us the names West Indies, malaria and platinum.
Sources:
https://www.rd.com/article/malapropism-examples/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOU0eA03S2c
https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-bulletin/2015/desperate-adventures-and-men-of-straw-the-failure-of-city-of-glasgow.pdf
https://www.taylor-rose.co.uk/posts/misfeasance
https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/library-archive-open-research-services/archives/sir-ronald-ross-collections
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anJKMZCVjxs
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