- Mondegreen, a term coined by American writer Sylvia Wright in 1954, refers to a misheard or misinterpreted phrase or lyric that creates a new meaning.
- Mondegreen Examples From Songs. Most mondegreens are inadvertent mishearings then subsequent misspeakings of song lyrics.
- James Gleick claims that the mondegreen is a distinctly modern phenomenon. Although people have no doubt misconstrued song lyrics for as long as songs have...
- "There's a bathroom on the right" is a mondegreen of Creedence Clearwater Revival's "There's a bad moon on the rise ." " Louie, Louie " is full of mondegreens.
- We've covered mondegreen on The Write Practice in the past. ... A mondegreen is a line that is misheard from poetry or song, or just a terrible sound system.
- (Sylvia Wright, "Leydi Mondegreen'in Ölümü." ... Greelane, 26 Ağustos 2020, thinkco.com/what-is-a-mondegreen-1691401.
- . Reprinted in: Contains the essays "The Death of Lady Mondegreen" and "The Quest of Lady Mondegreen".
- Mondegreens are misheard song lyrics. A fuller explanation of the meaning of the word mondegreen is best shown by retelling how it originated…
- In jimmy hendrixs "purple haze"people inevitably hear one of the lyrics as "'scuse me while I kiss this guy!"definite example of a Lady mondegreen for sure!
- She had developed a romantic attachment to “Lady Mondegreen” and decided to memorialize her by giving her name to the mishearing of words.