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What are Mondegreens, and who coined the term?
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#42554. Asked by elizabethmc.
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Gnomon
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Mondegreens are words of songs that you always hear the wrong way. I don't know who coined the term, but it comes from mishearing "laid them on the green" as "Lady Mondegreen".
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