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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

"The Star-Spangled Banner" is the national anthem of the United States. The lyrics come from the "Defence of Fort M'Henry", a poem written by American...

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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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

much of the performance. The title is a pun (same-sounding phrase or mondegreen) on the words I Love You. All songs written by Chrissie Hynde, except...

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

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...

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

preserving the original Moldovan rhyme in parts (an intentional sort of mondegreen or soramimi), and thereby transformed the song into an international gay...

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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...

released on August 23, 1994, by Def Jam Recordings. The title is a reverse mondegreen of the phrase "music in our message" (emphasizing that their message is...

2009, hardcover, 48 pp. N'Heures Souris Rames Homophonic translation Mondegreen Phono-semantic matching Reguennes (French: [ʁəɡɛn]) is a contrived proper...

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...

Yerself Is Steam is the 1991 debut album by Mercury Rev. The title is a mondegreen of the phrase "Your self-esteem", and is taken from a recurring lyric...

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...

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...

The project's name is derived from "Purple mountains majesty", a common mondegreen of the lyric "Purple mountain majesties" from "America the Beautiful"...