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Mondegreens
The
term mondegreen - meaning misheard lyric - comes from
from Sylvia Wright's mishearing of the "Oh, they have slain
the Earl of Moray and laid him on the green" as "Oh, they have slain
the Earl of Moray and Lady Mondegreen". Here are a few examples:
'Scuse
me while I kiss this guy (Meaning/Origin)
Beelzebub has a devil for a sideboard (Meaning/Origin)
Killed in a bar when he was only three (Meaning/Origin)
Olive the other reindeer used to laugh and call him names (Meaning/Origin)
The ants are my friends, they're blowing in the wind (Meaning/Origin)
The girl with colitis goes by (Meaning/Origin)
There's a bathroom on the right (Meaning/Origin)
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