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* Done a fair amount in ''[[Winnie the Pooh]]'', imitating children's tendency to get it wrong. For example "Contradiction" instead of "introduction".

* A reccurring gag in I.L. Caragiale's shorts and comedies will involve characters regularly mispronouncing and mixing up words, as a sign of illiteracy. One of the most well known examples is a policeman saying "enumeration" instead of "remuneration" or "capitalist" instead of "capital city".

* ''[[In Death]]'' series: Eve Dallas has an interesting habit of using the wrong words in idioms. ''Vengeance In Death'' had her saying ''And don't get on your golden horse with me, Roarke! Don't you even start!" Roarke had to point out that it's "high horse". Another ~~books~~ had her saying "Killing the fatted cow." Roarke points out that it's "calf" and she asks "What's the difference?" to which he responds "Oh, about a few hundred pounds, I imagine." Another book had him asking if she gets them wrong on purpose, and she says something like "Maybe." All this is to apparently show that Eve is so literal-minded that she has a hard time working with figurative expressions like idioms!

* ''[[In Death]]'' series: Eve Dallas has an interesting habit of using the wrong words in idioms. ''Vengeance In Death'' had her saying, "And don't get on your golden horse with me, Roarke! Don't you even start!" Roarke had to point out that it's "high horse". Another book had her saying "Killing the fatted cow." Roarke points out that it's "calf" and she asks "What's the difference?" to which he responds "Oh, about a few hundred pounds, I imagine." Another book had him asking if she gets them wrong on purpose, and she says something like "Maybe." All this is to apparently show that Eve is so literal-minded that she has a hard time working with figurative expressions like idioms!

* [[Hank the Cowdog]] runs on this trope.

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