HotForWords » Mondegreen http://hotforwords.com Marina Orlova - Not your typical philologist. Etymology, philology, word origins, origin of, hot teacher. Thu, 17 May 2012 01:20:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Mondegreen http://hotforwords.com/2009/07/08/mondegreen/ http://hotforwords.com/2009/07/08/mondegreen/#comments Thu, 09 Jul 2009 03:39:11 +0000 HotForWords http://www.hotforwords.com/?p=5409

Are you guilty of committing any mondegreens?

Please rate and comments over at YouTube to help the video.  Thanks!  :-)

Reminds me of this Buffalaxed video, hilarious:


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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!

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