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Mondegreen

Are you guilty of committing any mondegreens?

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Reminds me of this Buffalaxed video, hilarious:

Nerd Word of the Day: Mondegreen

Mondegreen: a word or phrase that results from a mishearing of something said or sung.

First coined by the author Sylvia Wright in 1954, when she misheard the Scottish ballad “The Bonny Earl of Moray.” The lyric “they had slain the Earl of Moray and had laid him on the green,” she thought they had said “Lady Mondegreen”, hence the word.

We’re all guilty of committing mondegreens, right? To this day I still have no idea what the lyrics to “Blinded by the light” are!

Can you think of some other funny mondegreens?

Write some below and I will shoot a video on this word and included some of your best ones!