Thereupon Billali did a curious thing. Down he went, that venerable-looking old gentleman - for Billali is a gentleman at the bottom - down on to his hands and knees, and in this undignified position, with his long white beard trailing on the ground, he began to creep into the apartment beyond.

update (9/30/2003): Geoff Pullum suggests that if no suitable term already exists for cases like this, we should call them egg corns, in the metonymic tradition of mondegreen, since the eponymous solution of malapropism and spoonerism is not appropriate.

Contrary to our expectations, none of these molecules was accepted by the enzyme, providing no support for the hypothesis that CnqP1 is responsible for the prenylation reaction in marinophenazine biosynthesis.

An English passenger, taking kindly to me, drew me into conversation. He was older than I. He asked me what I ate, what I was, where I was going, why I was shy, and so on. He also advised me to come to table. He laughed at my insistence on abjuring meat, […]