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A mondegreen (/ ˈ m ɒ n d ɪ ˌ ɡ r iː n / ⓘ) is a mishearing or misinterpretation of a phrase in a way that gives it a new meaning. [1] Mondegreens are most often created by a person listening to a poem or a song; the listener, being unable to hear a lyric clearly, substitutes words that sound similar and make some kind of sense.
Mad Gab is a board game involving words. At least two teams of 2–12 players have two minutes to sound out three puzzles. The puzzles are known as mondegreens and contain small words that, when put together, make a word or phrase.
Dylan Mondegreen (born Børge Sildnes) is a Norwegian singer and songwriter. [1] His debut album, While I Walk You Home , was released in his native country on 17 September 2007. The second album, The World Spins On , was released in 2009.
A mondegreen is a misinterpretation of a word or phrase, often within the lyrics of a specific song or other type of performance, and need not make sense within that context. [22] An eggcorn must still retain something of the original meaning, [ 22 ] as the speaker understands it, and may be a replacement for a poorly understood phrase rather ...
A mondegreen (or in Japanese soramimi) is a holorime generated by misheard song lyrics, such as mishearing "'scuse me while I kiss the sky" as "'scuse me while I kiss this guy." A homophonic translation is a holorime or near-holorime where the two homophonic or near-homophonic readings come from different languages, such as " Humpty Dumpty " in ...
A common mondegreen in the song is the perception that, following the title line, Lynne shouts "Bruce!" In the liner notes of the ELO compilation Flashback and elsewhere, Lynne has explained that he is singing a made-up word, "Groos", which some have suggested sounds like the German expression "Gruß", meaning "greeting."
The song "Auld Lang Syne" comes from a Robert Burns poem. Burns was the national poet of Scotland and wrote the poem in 1788, but it wasn't published until 1799—three years after his death.
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