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	Language Log: Egg corns: folk etymology, malapropism, mondegreen, ???
		mondegreen (also here and here), the kind of "slip of the ear" that is especially common in learning songs and poems.
		It's not a mondegreen because the mis-construal is not part of a song or poem or similar performance.
		Note, by the way, that the author of this mis-hearing may be a speaker of the dialect in which "beg" has the same vowel as the first syllable of "bagel".
	itre.cis.upenn.edu /~myl/languagelog/archives/000018.html (338 words)

	Mondegreens Ripped My Flesh
		Hendrix was himself aware that he had been Mondegreened, and would occasionally, in performance, actually kiss a guy after saying that line.
		When it turned out, some years later, that what they had actually done was slay the Earl of Murray and lay him on the green, Wright was so distraught by the sudden disappearance of her heroine that she memorialized her with a neologism.
		The pledge of allegiance is such a hotbed of Mondegreens that one could create a composite of submitted entries: "I pledge a lesion to the flag, of the United State of America, and to the republic for Richard Stans, one naked individual, with liver tea and just this for all."
	www.sfgate.com /columnists/carroll/mondegreens.shtml (882 words)

	MONdegreens ;-)~
		Whether you consider mondegreens a case of aural dyslexia or a variant of Freudian slip, the results are often much more fascinating than the original matter.
		The mondegreen effect is not limited to lyrics either.
		Imagine Wright's disappointment when she discovered that there was no Lady Mondegreen who valiantly gave her life to be with her love.
	members.aol.com /mon/mondegreen.htm (312 words)

	mondegreen central
		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.
		The song was not about the tragic fate of Lady Mondegreen, but rather, the continuing plight of the good earl: "They had slain the Earl of Moray/And laid him on the green."
		Mondegreens can be found in every area of the spoken word, from the record-buyer who asks for a copy the Queen single "Bohemian Rap City" to the schoolchild who is convinced that the Pledge of Allegiance begins "I led the pigeons to the flag." They tend to be about primal concerns: food, sex, animals.
	www.rulefortytwo.com /mondegreens.htm (823 words)

	ASU Department of English - mondegreen
		The point about what I shall hereafter call mondegreens, since no one else has thought up a word for them, is that they are better than the original.
		When I saw Sylvia Wright's lead paragraph on ompremity (October) I was afraid your penetrating exposer of mondegreens had lighted on it.
		The interesting thing about mondegreens is that the mis-hearings are generally less plausible than the intended lyrics.
	www.asu.edu /clas/english/homecoming/2005/mondegreen.html (135 words)

	cooltech.iafrica.com \| features The case of the one-ton tomato
		Her nemesis, in front of 250 guests, was Marvin Gaye's "Sexual Healing." The real lyrics ("Darling, you're so great/I can't wait for you to operate") had always been understood by Lisa to be "Darling, you're so great/I can't wait for you to ovulate".
		Mark and Lisa are casualties of something called a mondegreen: when you mishear a lyric in a song and even if the words seem a bit daft or total nonsense, they simply stay in your head and you always sing them that way.
		Mondegreens are now a tribal phenomenon, breeding numerous collectors' sites on the internet where victims, including Mark and Lisa, register their self-mangled versions of pop lyrics and compare them, sometimes with dismay, to what the true lyrics were.
	cooltech.iafrica.com /features/243469.htm (711 words)

	Posted 2/10/97
		The term "mondegreen" was invented by the writer Sylvia Wright in 1954, and for an explanation of the circumstances, we turn to Mr.
		A few days ago, I took the occasion of a reader's query about "for all intensive purposes" (which is, of course, a mangled rendition of "for all intents and purposes") to introduce the subject of "mondegreens." Mondegreens are humorous mishearings of popular phrases and song lyrics, so-named by writer Sylvia Wright in 1954.
		Mondegreens vary in intensity, as you might expect, and some are a bit difficult to swallow.
	www.word-detective.com /back-e2.html (1830 words)

	Mondegreen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The actual line is "And laid him on the green", from the anonymous 17th century ballad "The Bonnie Earl O' Murray".
		The term was the inspiration for the name of the US-British a capella vocal group Lady Mondegreen.
		This mondegreen was used in a 1990 television commercial for Maxell audio cassettes.)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mondegreen (1982 words)

	Mondegreen - N o W h e r e R a d i o . c o m
		Mondegreen - N o W h e r e R a d i o.
		Coming from the land of incessant rain, Borg(tm)-like corporations, and a ridiculously high suicide rate, Mondegreen dealt with this in the only sane way possible: by revelling in the irony and humor of life...
		Oh, sure, some bands from the pacific northwest will do nothing but wear flannel, become self-absorbed shoegazers, and ride their baritone-voiced golden child lead singer to unimaginable heights of fame...
	nowhereradio.com /mondegreen (504 words)

	Hole He Goes - Mondegreen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The minister's son was chosen to say the appropriate prayers and with sonorous dignity intoned his version of what he thought his father always said: "Glory be unto the Faaaather..and unto the Sonnnn.......and into the hole he gooooes." -- author unattributed.
		Kids are very good at inventing Mondegreens because they don't have the context of experience.
		"The father, the son and the hole he goes" is a perfect example, and the very name "mondegreen" is one also.
	www.summitlake.com /Humor/Hole_He_Goes.html (224 words)

	Mondegreen Music: Album Info: Hoozat
		The second album from the Seattle Kid, AKA Mondegreen.
		Mondegreen music is also available on commercial servers (usually with lesser quality for the downloads, but higher for the streams), so if you really want to stream, I highly suggest using one of those servers.
		I know not whether Laws be right, Or whether Laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol Is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, A year whose days are long.
	cmoore.com /arts/muzak/mondegreen/albumInfo.php?id=4 (184 words)

	EFL Geek: ESL & EFL in Korea - The Red and the Mondegreen
		According to snopes these misheard variations are referred to as mondegreens.
		he 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 1954 Harper's column.
		From the disappearance of Sylvia Wright's tragic heroine, Lady Mondegreen, came the term for describing unconventional interpretations or understandings of oral repetition, usually in the form of song lyrics.
	eflgeek.com /index.php/eflgeek/comments/the-red-and-the-mondegreen (252 words)

	ST:TCG "The Wrath of Jones"
		Mondegreen [confused by Jones' anger]: Not at all--your consonants are crisp and aspirated, and your vowels are clean and resonant.
		Mondegreen: The point is, this Curse has been operating with remarkable success for the past twenty-six generations, and I have no reason to believe that twenty-seventh time's the charm.
		Mondegreen is clad in his usual uniform, to which has been added a necktie (once worn by the eighteenth Baronet Ruddigarb).
	www.peppermint.org /~kath/sttcg/tcg4/jones.html (11043 words)

	Urban Dictionary: mondegreen
		"There's a bathroom on the right" is a mondegreen of Creedence Clearwater Revival's "There's a bad moon on the rise."
		A mondegreen (also sometimes spelled "mondagreen") is the accidental mishearing of a phrase in a poem, or song in such a way that it acquires a new, and usually humourous meaning.
		In "The Death of Lady Mondegreen" from Harper's Magazine November 1954, the American writer Sylvia Wright coined it:
	www.urbandictionary.com /define.php?term=mondegreen (213 words)

	Mondegreen
		A mondegreen is the mishearing (usually accidental) of a phrase, such that it acquires a new meaning.
		The word is a mondegreen of "They hae slain the Earl o' Murray and laid him on the green", the last five words being misheard as "Lady Mondegreen".
		The humorous aspect of these has given rise to a music video genre known as animutation[?].
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/mo/Mondegreen.html (209 words)

	Oh, they have slain the Earl of Moray and Lady Mondegreen
		The misheard lyric that was the source of the generic term for misheard lyrics - mondegreens.
		Following her mishearing of the words of the Scottish ballad The Bonny Earl of Moray, she wrote an essay entitles The Death of Lady Mondegreen.
		Wright did us all a service by giving a name to these mishearings - which must always have been with us inthe language.
	www.phrases.org.uk /meanings/264550.html (166 words)

	From The Globe and Mail
		Whether you consider mondegreens a case of aural dyslexia or a kind of Freudian slip, the results are often much more fascinating than the original matter.
		Imagine Wright's disappointment when she later discovered that there was no Lady Mondegreen who valiantly gave her life up to be with her love.
		Of course, mondegreens existed even before there was a name for it.
	www.wordsmith.org /awad/article-globeandmail.html (935 words)

	Urban Legends Reference Pages: The Red and the Mondegreen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The term 'mondegreen' — representing a series of words resulting from the mishearing of a statement or song
		From the disappearance of Sylvia Wright's tragic heroine, Lady Mondegreen, came the term for describing unconventional interpretations or understandings of oral repetition, usually in the form of song
		The table displayed below presents mangled Christmas lyrics (with the mondegreened lines bolded and italicized) in the left-hand column, while the correct lyrics are shown in the right-hand column.
	www.snopes.com /holidays/christmas/humor/mondegreens.asp (809 words)

	smh.com.au - The Sydney Morning Herald
		The real lyrics ("Darling, you're so great/I can't wait for you to operate") had always been understood by Lisa to be "Darling, you're so great/I can't wait for you to ovulate".
		Mondegreens are now a tribal phenomenon, breeding numerous collectors' sites on the internet where victims, including Mark and Lisa (see below), register their self-mangled versions of pop lyrics and compare them, sometimes with dismay, to what the true lyrics were.
		Jon Carroll, a San Francisco Chronicle columnist and mondegreen collector, says the most frequent submission to his Centre for the Humane Study of Mondegreens is "Gladly, my cross-eyed bear" - a distortion of an old hymn, "Gladly My Cross I'd Bear".
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/06/16/1055615707371.html (674 words)

	Semantic Compositions: Lime mondegreen
		Your host has written about mondegreens before, but today he wants to talk about a slight variant -- an attempt to get people to think they're hearing something different.
		But after seeing the commercial a few times last night, your host decided that it was absolutely impossible that the words he was hearing could be phonologically parsed as "in the Coke, you nut".
		Adweek's citation of the commercial also supports the idea that the music is the original, and that only the subtitle introduces the "you nut" material.
	semanticcompositions.typepad.com /index/2005/05/lime_mondegreen.html (832 words)

	Logomacy » Blog Archive » Mondegreen Blues (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		I’m embarrassed to admit how many years it was before I realized that this was a mondegreen.
		(Mondegreen is a name for the kind of global mishearing of the Scuse me while I kiss this guy sort, coined by Sylvia Wright, who misheard They had slain the Earl of Moray/And laid him on the green as They had slain the Earl of Moray/And Lady Mondegreen)
		One song in particular I had thought heartbreakingly lovely, until I consulted the lyrics sheet in the CD insert, and discovered that the lyrics were nowhere near as good as I’d been giving the author credit for.
	www.joshuamacy.com /wordpress/index.php?p=27 (807 words)

	Daily Challenge #10
		A mondegreen is a lyric which is heard incorrectly.
		The next line, I have only just discovered, was "Their sails are in sight" but my juvenile concentration on the basics of life rendered it as "They'll be frying tonight", and this is the version that has stayed with me for more than forty years.
		A mondegreen is a series of words or a phrase that is misheard in song lyric.
	www.etni.org.il /challenge/challenge10.htm (1474 words)

	Wordorigins.org: Letter M (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		It is a misheard song lyric (or other utterance), one where the phonetic components can be interpreted to have an entirely different meaning than what the lyricist intended.
		Perhaps the most famous mondegreen is the hymn Gladly the Cross I'd Bear, which generations of children have interpreted as Gladly, the Cross-Eyed Bear.
		She published a book of mondegreens which promptly made its way into obscurity.
	www.wordorigins.org /wordorm.htm (2219 words)

	Mondegreen Moments @ AMERICAN DIGEST (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		It's a common problem with the lyrics to pop songs that they are often misheard by the listeners.
		Mondegreens are commonly explained by the facts of loose recordings, production choices, and the volume at which all the instruments play and the singers sing.
		It might be a mere mondegreen, but it makes a much better song.
	americandigest.org /mt-archives/006416.php (1161 words)

	Morbid Outlook - Mondegreen
		It may be entirely probable that this effect was one that was central to the listener’s mind so that in a strange and subtle psychologizing way, he or she would have, by misconceiving, have actually improved (if only on an internal level) the song!”
		Along these lines of purposeful mondegreen as viable extension of art, Rasputina’s song “Leechwife” seems to intentionally slur the word “leechcraft” a couple of times to make it sound like “witchcraft”.
		All in all, whether or not the mondegreen can be used as a valid constituent of artistic process, the unintentional ones are a lot of fun.
	www.morbidoutlook.com /music/articles/2000_04_mondegreen.html (1270 words)

	August 19 - Mondegreens and Star Trek
		If you haven't heard of mondegreens, you are in for a treat.
		A mondegreen is a mis-heard lyric, almost always funny and often gut-wrenchingly hysterical.
		The first site is "The Ants Are My Friends," where Jessica lists the mondegreen followed by the correct line and the song.
	www.goatview.com /august19mondegreens.htm (735 words)

	one naked individual, with liver tea and just this for all (The Mondegreen Thread) - Unicyclist Community
		The word Mondegreen, meaning a mishearing of a popular phrase or song lyric, was coined by the writer Sylvia Wright.
		My 'beginner' jibe was a playfull dig at Steve and most definately not intended as a criticism of redundancy.
		When I find there is a word for something like that, like Mondegreen, I get pretty excited.
	www.unicyclist.com /forums/showthread.php?t=49868 (1121 words)

	A.Word.A.Day -- AWADmail Issue 29
		I have two examples of a kind of word messup, perhaps equivalent to a mondegreen but not exactly a member of the category.
		Here's another example of a Mondegreen: My husband and I were shopping for a new car back when the intermittent wipers were a razzle-dazzle feature.
		One of my favourite mondegreens came from my five-year daughter, who, while practising her piano, exclaimed, "Please don't extract me" (being "please don't distract me").
	www.wordsmith.org /awad/awadmail29.html (1652 words)

	The Mavens' Word of the Day (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The word you are looking for is mondegreen, 'a word or phrase resulting from a misinterpretation of a word or phrase that has been heard'.
		Ms Wright heard this as a child as "They hae slain the Earl o' Murray/And Lady Mondegreen," and went through life in sorrow for poor Lady Mondegreen until she encountered the ballad in written form and realized her error.
		This phenomenon is relatively common, and it's useful to have a name to apply to it.
	www.randomhouse.com /wotd/index.pperl?date=19990811 (210 words)

	Alien Barbecue » Blog Archive » I Kissed This Guy and Lady Mondegreen
		Emily Litella and I are not alone, and there’s actually a name for the little flubs we make: mondegreen!
		Granted, mondegreen hasn’t yet been accepted into the dictionary, but it seems like every sesquipedalian already views the word as legitimate.
		This entry was posted on Tuesday, February 18th, 2003 at 9:09 pm and is filed under Mondegreens.
	aprilgem.com /log/index.php?p=164 (338 words)

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