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By (user no longer on site) OP
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A mondegreen is the mishearing or misinterpretation of a phrase as a result of near-homophony, in a way that gives it a new meaning. It most commonly is applied to a line in a poem or a lyric in a song.
US writer Wylvia Wright coined the term in her essay "The Death of Lady Mondegreen:
"When I was a child, my mother used to read aloud to me from Percy's Reliques, and one of my favorite poems began, as I remember:
Ye Highlands and ye Lowlands,
Oh, where hae ye been?
They hae slain the Earl O' Moray,
And Lady Mondegreen.
As a small child, she misheard the 4th line, which actually reads
"And laid him on the green."
Bad Moon Rising:
"don't come round tonight
you're bound to lose your life
there's a bathroom on the right"
(someone must have taken a massive dump there...) |
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By (user no longer on site)
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A topical pair
".... the little lord Jesus lay down his wee ted!"
Aw bless!
".. where the snow lay all about, deep pan crisp and even!"
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