• 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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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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...
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  • 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...
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    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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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • Error (linguistics) Freudian slip Goldwynisms Homonym Johnny Dangerously Mondegreen Mumpsimus Norm Crosby Trailer Park Boys "'Yogisms': Yogi Berra's best...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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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    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...
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  • 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...
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    spelled "colley" or "collie" See this explanation: Mondegreen#Standardized and recorded mondegreens Shahn, Ben (1951). A Partridge in a Pear Tree. New...
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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...
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    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...
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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...
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  • 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...
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  • Linguistics portal Aureation Backslang Blend word Calque Language planning Mondegreen Morphology (linguistics) Nonce word Phono-semantic matching Protologism...
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    Museum of the Moon at Phish’s 2024 Music Festival in Dover, DE, Mondegreen....
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  • 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...
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  • mocking sniglets as an obscure fad. Daffynition Dord Eggcorn Jabberwocky Mondegreen Phono-semantic matching Petelin, Roslyn (17 January 2018). "Milkshake...
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  • 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...
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  • — Curt Smith Curt Smith's ad lib in the song's final chorus resulted in a mondegreen. Smith clarified the actual lyric in 2010: With Mad World's again-resurgent...
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  • 2009, hardcover, 48 pp. N'Heures Souris Rames Homophonic translation Mondegreen Phono-semantic matching Reguennes (French: [ʁəɡɛn]) is a contrived proper...
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  • 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...
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  • The project's name is derived from "Purple mountains majesty", a common mondegreen of the lyric "Purple mountain majesties" from "America the Beautiful"...
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  • 2.0145. Larson 1989, p. 172—183. Staley, Willy (July 15, 2012). "Lady Mondegreen and the Miracle of Misheard Song Lyrics". The New York Times. Retrieved...
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