Mondegreen
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title:
Mondegreen
text:
A mondegreen is a mishearing or misinterpretation of a phrase in a way that gives it a new meaning. Mondegreens are most often created by a person listening to a poem or a song; the listener, being unable to hear a lyric clearly, substitutes words that sound similar and make some kind of sense. The American writer Sylvia Wright coined the term in 1954, recalling a childhood memory of her mother reading the Scottish ballad "The Bonnie Earl o' Moray", and mishearing the words "laid him on the gree
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Misinterpretation of a spoken phrase
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondegreen
date created:
2001-09-26T09:47:19Z
date modified:
2024-08-31T09:13:54Z
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