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What (who) is mondegreen - definition

MISHEARING OR MISINTERPRETATION OF A PHRASE AS A RESULT OF NEAR-HOMOPHONY

Mondagreen; Lady Mondegreen; Mondegreens; Misheard lyrics; Misheard; José, can you see?; Jose, can you see?; Lollipop King; Mishearing; Avatiach; List of mondegreens; List of Mondegreens; Reverse mondegreen

mondegreen

A you-can-find-this-in-thedictionary-already word. A mishearing, something that was misheard, a misunderstanding. Happens all the time with song lyrics, sayings, familiar pharases, slogans, etc.
Gladly, the cross-eyed bear is one of the better-known mondegreens.

Mondegreen

A mondegreen () is a mishearing or misinterpretation of a phrase in a way that gives it a new meaning. "A misunderstood or misinterpreted word or phrase resulting from a mishearing, esp.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondegreen

Dylan Mondegreen

NORWEGIAN SINGER

Dylan mondegreen

Dylan Mondegreen (born Børge Sildnes) is a Norwegian singer and songwriter. His debut album, While I Walk You Home, was released in his native country on 17 September 2007.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylan_Mondegreen

Wikipedia

Mondegreen

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 Bonny Earl of Murray" (from Thomas Percy's 1765 book Reliques of Ancient English Poetry), and mishearing the words "layd him on the green" as "Lady Mondegreen".

"Mondegreen" was included in the 2000 edition of the Random House Webster's College Dictionary, and in the Oxford English Dictionary in 2002. Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary added the word in 2008.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondegreen

Examples of use of mondegreen

1. A mondegreen most often comes from misunderstood phrases or lyrics.

2. Mondegreen, first spotted in print in 1'54, was among tens of thousands of words the wordsmiths watched for decades.

3. Don‘t Miss On the web: Merriam–Webster.com It comes from an old Scottish ballad in which the lyric "laid him on the green" has been confused over time with "Lady Mondegreen." Among the best–known modern examples: "There‘s a bathroom on the right" in place of Creedence Clearwater Revival‘s "There‘s a bad moon on the rise" and "‘Scuse me, while I kiss this guy" in place of "kiss the sky" in the 1'67 Jimi Hendrix classic "Purple Haze." Even Sokolowski, a word expert by trade, has a favorite mondegreen: "Lucy in the sky with diamonds," as sung by the Beatles in 1'67, made obvious sense to the preteen Peanuts comic fan as "Lucy in the sky with Linus." Merriam–Webster‘s editors were so amused by the mondegreen concept that they plan to ask people to submit their favorites on the publishing company‘s Web site.

4. Others reflect current events and much–discussed news topics, including dirty bomb (a conventional bomb that releases radioactive material) and Norovirus (small, round single–stranded RNA viruses, such as the Norwalk Virus). And then there‘s "mondegreen." In a category of its own, it describes words mistaken for other words.