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Jon Carroll, columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, periodically runs a story which gives the truth about "Mondegreen". A mondegreen is a mishearing of the lyrics of popular songs. The name itself comes from Carroll's mishearing of a line in a song from his youth, about a valiant man who villains killed "and laid him on the green".
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.
Jon Carroll (born November 6, 1943) is a retired newspaper columnist, best known for his work for the San Francisco Chronicle [1] from 1982, when he succeeded columnist Charles McCabe, to 2015, when he retired.
Jon Bon Jovi will be center stage at the annual MusiCares Person of the Year dinner on Friday, Feb. 2, at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Bon Jovi, Bruce Springsteen, Shania Twain, Jason Isbell ...
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Starland Vocal Band also included Jon Carroll (keyboards, guitar, vocals) and Margot Chapman (vocals). [2] Carroll and Chapman also became a couple, marrying in 1978. [4] The group's debut album was the self-titled Starland Vocal Band and included "Afternoon Delight". The song was a US number one hit [4] and the album also charted.
RAIDERS HIRE PETE CARROLL: Winners, losers as Tom Brady helps Vegas land proven winner Davis also explained Brady will fill the role the Raiders had hoped Jon Gruden would when the team initially ...
Sometimes these misanalyses and resegmentations can even result in neologisms (new additions to a language's lexicon), such as the word mondegreen itself.' I agree with David. It's not clear, it misguides the reader, and the sole reference is to a phenomenon, junctural metanalysis , which is vaguely related to, and may contribute to the ...