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What is mondegreen?The color green with a little "monde" in it. "Yo Trevor, what's your favorite color?" mondegreen - meme gifmondegreen - videoMondegreen - what is it?This term means mis heard lyric. Basically a woman in 1954 was listening to a scottish song where one of the actual lyrics were: they "laid him on the green"the woman however misheard it as lady mondegreen and the term came to represent any misheard lyric In jimmy hendrixs "purple haze"people inevitably hear one of the lyrics as "'scuse me while I kiss this guy!"definite example of a Lady mondegreen for sure! What does "mondegreen" mean?This term means mis heard lyric. Basically a woman in 1954 was listening to a scottish song where one of the actual lyrics were: they "laid him on the green"the woman however misheard it as lady mondegreen and the term came to represent any misheard lyric In jimmy hendrixs "purple haze"people inevitably hear one of the lyrics as "'scuse me while I kiss this guy!"definite example of a Lady mondegreen for sure! Mondegreen - what does it mean?The term for misunderstood song lyrics In the song by Elton John where he sang 'Lay me down on sheets of linen', I thought he was saying 'Lay me down and shoot some lemons', which is a mondegreen. Mondegreen - meaningA misheard song lyric. A symptom of word"kiss this guy" syndrome/word Mondegreen - definitionA misheard song lyric or occasionally other utterance. The funnier the better. Originated when the seventeenth century ballad "The Bonnie Earl of Moray" was misheard; "they have slain the Earl of Moray/ and laid him on the green", became "They have slain the Earl of Moray/ And Lady Mondegreen". Examples of mondegreens: Mondegreen - slangA mondegreen (also sometimes spelled "mondagreen") is the accidental mishearing of a phrase in a poem, or song in such a way that it acquires a new, and usually humourous meaning. In "The Death of Lady Mondegreen" from Harper's Magazine November 1954, the American writer Sylvia Wright coined it: Mondegreennoun. A misheard lyric in a song. The term comes from an old song which contains the lyric "They slew the Earl of Moray and laid him on the green." It was commonly misheard as "They slew the Earl of Moray and Lady Mondegreen." "There's a bathroom on the right" is a mondegreen of Creedence Clearwater Revival's "There's a bad moon on the rise." |
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