The Lemon Fool

Inspired by a post elsewhere on lemonfool.

Who is the odd one out, and why?

1. Mrs Malaprop
2. Lady Mondegreen
3. The Rev Dr W A Spooner

Well, Spooner existed...
Another answer is Mondegreen, as they are misheard correct language and the other two are language -mangling

Mondegreen:-

The only one that has its own thread at the Land of Off Topic Posts viewtopic.php?f=74&t=14713&p=179716

Damn, that seems to have fallen flat. Thanks AC and PD for playing, albeit tentatively and briefly.

The answer is of course all of them. We can put forward a range of arguments for one or another, and while some may be stronger than others, to claim any one argument as uniquely 'right' would be silly and arrogant.

Since I started it, I guess I owe the thread a set of answers, one for each candidate and excluding those already posted. There are of course others.
- Malapropisms are single words, whereas a spoonerism or mondegreen is likely to span two or more words.
- Mondegreen neither has nor is an -ism. She is herself the canonical Mondegreen, whereas the others are merely the canonical speakers of their respective -isms.
- Whereas malapropisms and mondegreens are real words misused or misheard, spoonerisms commonly transmute real words into nonsense sounds, albeit humorously parseable.

Perhaps you should have asked what did they have in common. Provided some amusement anyway, thanks