Have you ever heard someone sing the wrong lyrics to a song? Maybe a child gave the nursery rhyme"Row, Row, Row your boat" a new meaning by replacing the line "life is but a dream" with "life's a butter dream".


A word or phrase resulting from mishearing another word or phrase (especially in a song or poem) is a common phenomenon known as MONDEGREEN typically sounds like the original phrase I.e they are homophonous but the meaning is often entirely changed with presumably amazing results.



Where did the word mondegreen come from?

So why do we call these misinterpretation mondegreens? The term is itself a mondegreen. Sylvia Wright, an American author, coined it after a phrase she recalled mishearing as a young girl. Wright reportedly believed the first stanza to "The Bonnie Earl O'moray" a 17th century ballad, featured two unfortunate aristocrats :

Ye highlands and ye lowlands
Oh, were have ye been?
They have slain the Earl O'moray
And lady Mondegreen

The correct phrasing of the fourth line is "And laid him on the green".
While Wright gave us a name for this phenomenon in 1954, people have been misinterpreting words and phrases since the beginning of speech.
Culled from dictionary. Com

You can add your own examples of mondegreens in music.

Sandalili sandalili comes to mind

Oluwasaeon:
Sandalili sandalili comes to mind

Lol
Standard living
I didn't even know until last year

Hintona:

Lol
Standard living
I didn't even know until last year

Me too, 2 years ago

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Hintona:
Have you ever heard someone sing the wrong lyrics to a song? Maybe a child gave the nursery rhyme"Row, Row, Row your boat" a new meaning by replacing the line "life is but a dream" with "life's a butter dream".


A word or phrase resulting from mishearing another word or phrase (especially in a song or poem) is a common phenomenon known as MONDEGREEN typically sounds like the original phrase I.e they are homophonous but the meaning is often entirely changed with presumably amazing results.



Where did the word mondegreen come from?

So why do we call these misinterpretation mondegreens? The term is itself a mondegreen. Sylvia Wright, an American author, coined it after a phrase she recalled mishearing as a young girl. Wright reportedly believed the first stanza to "The Bonnie Earl O'moray" a 17th century ballad, featured two unfortunate aristocrats :

Ye highlands and ye lowlands
Oh, were have ye been?
They have slain the Earl O'moray
And lady Mondegreen

The correct phrasing of the fourth line is "And laid him on the green".
While Wright gave us a name for this phenomenon in 1954, people have been misinterpreting words and phrases since the beginning of speech.
Culled from dictionary. Com

You can add your own examples of mondegreens in music.

You copied this right?

YomyFreestyle:
You copied this right?

Yeah from a website dictionary.com

Hintona:


Yeah from a website dictionary.com

Lol ya lucky I didn't catch u

YomyFreestyle:
Lol ya lucky I didn't catch

I don't understand?

Hintona:

I don't understand?

Refresh the thread, reread the quote and you will

Hintona:
Have you ever heard someone sing the wrong lyrics to a song? Maybe a child gave the nursery rhyme"Row, Row, Row your boat" a new meaning by replacing the line "life is but a dream" with "life's a butter dream".


A word or phrase resulting from mishearing another word or phrase (especially in a song or poem) is a common phenomenon known as MONDEGREEN typically sounds like the original phrase I.e they are homophonous but the meaning is often entirely changed with presumably amazing results.



Where did the word mondegreen come from?

So why do we call these misinterpretation mondegreens? The term is itself a mondegreen. Sylvia Wright, an American author, coined it after a phrase she recalled mishearing as a young girl. Wright reportedly believed the first stanza to "The Bonnie Earl O'moray" a 17th century ballad, featured two unfortunate aristocrats :

Ye highlands and ye lowlands
Oh, were have ye been?
They have slain the Earl O'moray
And lady Mondegreen

The correct phrasing of the fourth line is "And laid him on the green".
While Wright gave us a name for this phenomenon in 1954, people have been misinterpreting words and phrases since the beginning of speech.
Culled from dictionary. Com

You can add your own examples of mondegreens in music.

This post kinda odd coming from a lady.. You must be a music enthusiast. Do you sing or trap?

Wunna:
This post kinda odd coming from a lady.. You must be a music enthusiast. Do you sing or trap?

I like music (who doesn't?)
I sing but in a choir in a church.

Hintona:


I like music (who doesn't?)
I sing but in a choir in a church.

Arh! Thought you were some upcoming songster with aspirations to advance in the nearest future.. Something like becoming the next badgirl riri