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Thu 16 Feb, 2017 03:18 pm
What is the word for when we listen to a song and mishear the lyrics, yet the result still makes sense? For example there was a song about a fat girl that went: "Wheezy Anna" and I took it to be "Greasy Anna". Sorry I can't come up with a better example at this time, but I hope you get the idea.
@McGentrix,
ha
as a kid i always wondered about the "dawning of the angels aquarium" in that song from Hair
@djjd62,
I've often wondered how one "revved up like a douche"
There's a bathroom on the right
"The girl with colitis goes by"
Gail Bennington of the Bennington Show always heard this in Toto's song
"I guess it rains down in Africa"
@djjd62,
djjd62 wrote:
Gail Bennington of the Bennington Show always heard this in Toto's song
"I guess it rains down in Africa"
Hold on now, that's NOT the lyric?
@djjd62,
I like it when Randy does mondegreen programs on Vinyl Tap.
@ehBeth,
There was a terrific columnist at the San Francisco Chronicle that used to do mondegreens fairly often. Oh, man, I miss that paper (paywall now). The fellow retired recently, sigh. I read him for years: Jon Carroll.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Carroll
Thank you, Region Philbis, for the fast reply. Your "Mondegreen" took me to "Eggcorn", that was the word I had forgotten. Both kinds of mishearing happen!
Thanks to all the other posters, too.
@pictor,
you're quite welcome, pictor...
Looking back through an old-timer's memory mist I can see my two very best acquaintances forlornly sprawled.
"They've killed the Earl o' Moray and Lady Mondegreen", I screamed at no-one at all.
A quick check for weapons revealed none nearby oronym.
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