I've got a million of them! Well, not a million, but plenty more.
The comments are pretty good too.
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I once worked with a woman who called dachshunds "Datsuns" and another woman who talked about a "human cry" (hue and cry).
I would unfriend that person too!
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A mondegreen is a misunderstood or misinterpreted word or phrase resulting from a mishearing of the lyrics of a song. Let's stretch that definition to include words or phrases other than songs, and here's what happens.
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And some that are not mondegreens, just misused words, but they're funny anyway.
Happy Thursday!
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There used to be a website called Mondegreen; a repository of misheard song lyrics. It was named for the misunderstood line in a folk song, "And laid him on the green." The author misinterpreted this line as "And Lady Mondegreen." Nowadays, the lyrics of any song can be Googled in an instant, but that wasn't always the case.
My mother once had a notebook filled with the carefully written lyrics of all her favourite 50's songs. One song was "That's Amore", and the line that puzzled me appeared in the notebook as "When the stars make you drool just like parsnip arool". What the heck was parsnip arool? Not a dish she had ever cooked. It wasn't until years later that I listened carefully and realized it was her interpretation of "pasta fazool". Fair enough. Italian food was not something anyone in my childhood home had ever heard of, let alone eaten.
The last line of the jingle announcing a popular 60's comedy "Car 54, Where Are You", about cops in New York City, had me stumped. For as long as the show ran, I heard, "Khrushchev's due at Idlewild" as "Khrushchev's due and I go wild". The penny finally dropped when I found out what and where Idlewild airport was.
So now there's a subreddit called r/boneappletea (bon appetit) for common words and phrases that some folks get wrong. Here are just a few:
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To usher in a new month with the promise of springtime, here are a few more clever pictures and cartoons to make you smile. I need a reason to smile at the moment. I took a tumble this morning when I went out with the dogs. An icy patch that I didn't see had formed right outside the back door. Luckily for me, I landed on my bum, so it wasn't all bad!
Rabbit!
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Are you ready for today's grammar lesson? Don't worry, it won't hurt a bit.
Thank you, Ron, for passing these along to me.
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