New Word

[maggiebee]

I have just learned a new word: a mondegreen

I receive Ian Rankin's newsletters, and in the most recent one it said:

Well, Standing In Another Man’s Grave is finally out in paperback here in the UK. As some of you will know, it takes its title from a mondegreen, meaning a misheard song lyric. For some time, I’d thought my friend the musician Jackie Leven had been singing about ‘standing in another man’s grave’ – it was only when I saw the lyrics that I realised it was rain he was standing in. But by then it was too late – I had my title.

Must try to drop it into a conversation soon!

[sandyRoe]

'Egrets, I've had a few,' was a puzzler to me.

[humbersloop]

I was happily humming "are we human or are we hamsters?" for ages

[WyeDyed]

There are some good ones here from a couple of years ago.
http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Music/Question1069415.html

[jno]

they have killed the Earl of Moray and Lady Mondegreen, wasn't it? For "laid him on the green".

Scuse me while I kiss this guy.

[Peter Pedant]

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when someone recently fell off a mountain,
the newscaster said the location was 'the Australian Alps'

with wind back I was able to make sure