
No one is immune to the odd malapropism. Chances are we are all guilty of a George W Bushism or two in our time.
But according to a new survey three in four Brits get words mixed up every day, which might explain it if you've ever heard someone say they're "flaunting" the rules "for all intensive purposes" in order to "extract revenge", "irregardless" of the consequences.
Privilege Insurance, which conducted the survey, found that 66 per cent of the 2,000 respondents also admitted to using words and phrases they don't actually understand.
Apparently one in four people don't even know they're talking gibberish. Make sure it's not you by checking out the lists below:
Most commonly made up words:
34% Conflab
21% Irregardless
21% Supposably
17% Confuddled
13% Alphabeticise
11% Speriodically
8% Seriosity
8% Conversate
8% Approportion