Cheese Mondegreen
I wrote about mondegreens before. This is more a parody than a mondegreen, of course, but I found it hilarious and ingenious. To get it, you must be familiar with the Eurythmics song “Sweet Dreams.”
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Eggcorns and Other Eggcorns
I posted recently about mondegreens — the mishearing or misunderstanding of song lyrics or poetry. Today I’d like to talk about a similar, and similarly entertaining, linguistic error. It’s called an eggcorn, a term coined by linguist Geoffrey Pullum and Mark Lieberman in 2003.
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Mondegreens: Misheard Lyrics
I’ve written before about the curious fact that there are a number of linguistic terms for things I recognize but never knew had a name. Mondegreen is one of those terms.
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