A mondegreen (/ˈmɒndɪˌɡriːn/ ) is a mishearing or misinterpretation of a phrase in a way that gives it a new meaning. Mondegreens are most often created...

American writer Sylvia Wright coined the term "mondegreen" in an essay "The Death of Lady Mondegreen", which was published in Harper's Magazine in November...

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...

the other hand is a substitution that exhibits creativity or logic. A mondegreen is a misinterpretation of a word or phrase, often within the lyrics of...

characters created by a poet -onym Homonym Capitonym Homograph Polysemy Mondegreen This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Heteronym...

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busillis [at the day of Busillis], believing this was a famous man. This mondegreen has since entered the literature; it occurs in Alessandro Manzoni's novel...

spelled "colley" or "collie" See this explanation: Mondegreen#Standardized and recorded mondegreens Shahn, Ben (1951). A Partridge in a Pear Tree. New...

year gap between Magnaball and Mondegreen made for the biggest gap between festivals in the band's history. Mondegreen was named after a term for mishearings...

8, 2020. Retrieved July 8, 2020. Staley, Willy (July 13, 2012). "Lady Mondegreen and the Miracle of Misheard Song Lyrics". The New York Times. Archived...

Grove may be a place-name, a woman's name or nickname, or possibly a mondegreen. Doc Watson helped popularize "Shady Grove", after presumably learning...

from Gish into a fan booklet as "mayonnaise seas". The band thought this mondegreen was funny and used "Mayonaise" [sic] as a temporary song title when recording...

Nilsson's hit song "Coconut" in an edited and slightly altered form with the mondegreen "You put the lime in the Coke, you nut." "Coca-Cola set to launch Diet...

reindeer" can be misheard in dialects with the cot–caught merger as the mondegreen "Olive, the other reindeer". The special was nominated for the Emmy Award...

mocking sniglets as an obscure fad. Daffynition Dord Eggcorn Jabberwocky Mondegreen Phono-semantic matching Petelin, Roslyn (17 January 2018). "Milkshake...

danced by Prabhu Deva became widely known on the internet in the form of a mondegreen/soramimi spoof and viral video, following its subtitling as "Crazy Indian...

Museum of the Moon at Phish’s 2024 Music Festival in Dover, DE, Mondegreen....

Guinness Book of British Hit Singles & Albums, the band's name was a mondegreen from the song "Jackson" ("We got married in a fever, hotter than a pepper...

2024, Phish featured Hill as part of a stand up comedy special at their Mondegreen music festival camping weekend in Dover, Delaware. Performing at the Leigh...

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so on, continuing in this impossible cycle. Adele's name is almost a mondegreen for "a delicate art" (Adele Lack Cotard). Commenting on the scale of the...

Evolve, Phish's sixteenth studio album, was released on July 12, 2024. Mondegreen, a four day Phish festival at the Woodlands of Dover Motor Speedway in...

Malapropism – the use of an incorrect word in place of a word that sounds similar Mondegreen – mishearing or misinterpretation of a phrase as a result of near-homophony...

logo became a white horse on a red map of Turkey in order to evoke this mondegreen. The DYP's predecessor was the Democrat Party (Turkish: Demokrat Parti...

interpreting words as other similar-sounding words for comedy (similar to a mondegreen, but done deliberately). The word is more commonly used for its original...

ranked the record as the No. 19 song of 1970. The title is an intentional mondegreen or sensational spelling for "thank you for letting me be myself again...

busillis [at the day of Busillis], believing this was a famous man. This mondegreen has since entered the literature; it occurs in Alessandro Manzoni's novel...

at least one thousand entries. A reproduction of a few genuine texts. Mondegreen GOLD (ontology) Grammatical gender Text linguistics Language documentation...

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"beans bunny". An alternate, albeit unlikely, etymology is derived from a mondegreen of "bun" and "achar" (Indian pickles), though the latter are not usually...