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Encyclopedia: Mondegreen
A mondegreen is the mishearing (usually unintentional) of a phrase as a homophone or near-homophone in such a way that it acquires a new meaning. History The word "mondegreen" is itself a mondegre...
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Here at the Center for the Humane Study of Mondegreens, we've been toting up the entries and applying the latest statistical correlative methods,
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A database of misheard lyrics to pop songs Vivid Seats has an amazing track record for customer service and specializes in cheap concert tickets for tours large and small. You'll find a large selection of prices and seating options for U2 tour tickets and tickets for family favorites including Miley FUNNIEST O THE WEE...
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Misheard lyrics to Christmas songs are immortalized as 'mondegreens.' The Red and the Mondegreen Origins: The term 'mondegreen' — representing a series of words resulting from the mishearing of a statement or song lyric — is generally attributed to Sylvia Wright, who is credited with coining the neologism in a...
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Mondegreens are a sort of aural malapropism. Instead of saying the wrong word, you hear the wrong word. The word mondegreen is generally used for misheard...
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Etymology: from the mishearing in a Scottish ballad of “laid him on the green” as “Lady Mondegreen”. Date: 1954. : a word or phrase that results from a...
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The term "mondegreen" was coined by Sylvia Wright in a 1954 Atlantic article. As a child, young Sylvia had listened to a folk song that included the lines "They had slain the Earl of Moray/And Lady Mondegreen." As is customary with misheard lyrics, she didn't realize her mistake for years.
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Misheard lyrics aka Mondegreens for songs from the past 50 years, including country, chrisitan music, and christmas music. Over 100,000 misheard song lyrics! My sister and I took our mother for her birthday to see "Bjorn Again" last month. She had always loved ABBA But when we heard our mom sing 'tangerine' in the lyric,
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Enter the Lady Mondegreeen Website...
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But it might also be treated as something like a mondegreen (also here and here), the kind of "slip of the ear" that is especially common in learning songs and poems. Finally, it's also something like a malapropism, where a word is mistakenly substituted for one of similar sound shape.
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