Michael Frayn is incentive?

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Trying to remember something about Michael Frayn I was looking at a comment on one of his books. When the reader described Frayn’s book as “cognitive and incentive” I decided I’d encountered the most amazing malapropism I’ll ever see or the worst case of thesaurus abuse on record.

May 03, 2003 • Permalink
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