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mondoshawan2
12/26/18 11:23:09 AM
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for those who dont know, a mondegreen is "a mishearing or misinterpretation of a phrase as a result of near-homophony, in a way that gives it a new meaning. Mondegreens are most often created by a person listening to a poem or a song; the listener, being unable to clearly hear a lyric, substitutes words that sound similar and make some kind of sense. American writer Sylvia Wright coined the term in 1954, writing about how as a girl she had misheard the lyric "...and laid him on the green" in a Scottish ballad as "...and Lady Mondegreen". (wiikipedia)

for me, one that sticks out iis one i just recently figured out. "nothings gonna stop us now" by starship. the actual lyric is "and when this world runs out of lovers, we'll still have each other". but what id heard was "and when this world burns down above us". ^_^
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Johnny Eagle
12/26/18 4:52:43 PM
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I used to think the last line of the chorus of "Replay" by Iyaz was "It's like my eyeball's stuck on replay" instead of "It's like my iPod's stuck on replay"
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MrMelodramatic
12/26/18 4:56:26 PM
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For all intensive purposes
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Oops_All_Berrys
12/26/18 5:02:35 PM
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I used to think that "all about the Benjamins, baby" was "all about the Benjamin's baby" like about the Benjamin family kid
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GanglyKhan
12/26/18 5:39:01 PM
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MrMelodramatic posted...
For all intensive purposes

That's an eggcorn.
Mondegreens are exclusively relating to song lyrics.

I could probably list at least 1 for every RHCP song ever lol
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keyblader1985
12/26/18 6:25:39 PM
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Oops_All_Berrys posted...
I used to think that "all about the Benjamins, baby" was "all about the Benjamin's baby" like about the Benjamin family kid

lol
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Mover_of_Zigs
12/26/18 7:17:38 PM
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So many...misheard lyrics can be a great inspiration.

Let this taco shell set you free from a Symphony X song, spreadsheet on a hill from a Marillion song, fat men in robes from a Vanden Plas song

And thanks a lot... I had Nothings Gonna Stop Us Now stuck in my head for like 6 months straight...now it's back again
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Mead
12/26/18 10:30:17 PM
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Ziggy Stardust

So where were the spiders?
While the fly tried to rain apples
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HelIWithoutSin
12/30/18 4:17:36 PM
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWalP8U-GZc" data-time="
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