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    What are Mondegreens, and who coined the term?

    Question #42554. Asked by elizabethmc. (Dec 20 03 5:17 PM)


    Gnomon

    		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".

    Dec 20 03, 5:33 PM
    shady shaker

    		The term was coined in 1954 by Sylvia Wright.

    (www.physics.ohio-state.edu)

    Dec 20 03, 5:42 PM

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