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Going To Hell In A Hen Basket: Modern Malapropisms

瓜神app | By Will Michaels,
Frank Stasio
Published October 8, 2015 at 12:07 PM EDT
Robert Rubin is a professor of English at Meredith College and the author of 'Going to Hell in a Hen Basket.'
Robert Rubin
Robert Rubin is a professor of English at Meredith College and the author of 'Going to Hell in a Hen Basket.'

Misusing words and phrases drives the language purists among us crazy, but for English professor , malapropisms are not only amusing but examples of how language evolves.

His new book, "" (Flatiron Books/2015), is an exploration of the newest ways that we say what we do not mean.

Host Frank Stasio talks with Rubin, an English professor at Meredith College, about modern malapropisms.
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Arts & Culture The State of ThingsHell In A Hen BasketRobert RubinMalapropismsMeredith CollegeEnglish
Will Michaels
Will Michaels is 瓜神app's Weekend Host and Reporter.
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Frank Stasio
Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's 瓜神app Director.
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