Malapropisms

I not only get a bit confused when I am trying to read but i don't always hear very well.  This does result in some Malapropisms.  As our Cockney taxi driver said - here is a for instance.  I thought I heard on the radio  "Due to the risk of flooding many houses had to be evaporated".  On another occasion -  "When the bombing started  I thought we should all be blown to maternity".  There is a road in Folkestone called Turketel Road Known to our family as Turkey Tail Road because That is what Nanny called it.  I believe this nishearing of words is called "mondegreen"  from a mishearing of " they laid him on the green".  What with Malapropisms, Mondegreen and Spoonerisms  our language is endlessly fascinating.  My father-in-law was full of stories.  One was a messenger boy's excuse for being late.  "I was just coming to work when I met a dog following me.   He wouldn't go home so I chained him up with a piece of rope and when I went back, there he was .  Gorn!".