{"id":1818,"date":"2008-07-09T07:20:15","date_gmt":"2008-07-09T11:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/?p=1818"},"modified":"2008-07-08T22:05:41","modified_gmt":"2008-07-09T02:05:41","slug":"whats-your-favorite-mondegreen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/09\/whats-your-favorite-mondegreen\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s your Favorite Mondegreen?"},"content":{"rendered":"

So what’s your favorite mondegreen<\/em>? According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary it is<\/p>\n

“a word or phrase that results from a mishearing of something said or sung”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Do you have a friend who never quite gets the song lyrics right?<\/p>\n

A few more examples:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The ants are my friends<\/em> = the answer my friend\/is blowin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 in the wind<\/em>
\nBob Dylan, “Blowin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 in the Wind”<\/p>\n

There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a bathroom on the right<\/em> = there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a bad moon on the rise<\/em>
\nCredence Clearwater Revival, “Bad Moon Rising”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary<\/a> folk are collecting mondegreens. You can submit them through July 25 and they will share the best of them beginning on July 28.<\/p>\n

Submit Your Mondegreen<\/a><\/p>\n

——————-<\/p>\n

\n
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.<\/dt>\n
H. L. Mencken<\/a><\/strong>, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)<\/em>
\nUS editor (1880 – 1956)<\/em><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So what’s your favorite mondegreen? According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary it is “a word or phrase that results from a mishearing of something said or sung” Do you have a friend who never quite gets the song lyrics right? A few more examples: The ants are my friends = the answer my friend\/is blowin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-1818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","wpcat-54-id"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pe0C4-tk","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1818"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}