![]() She took the word from a lyric she misheard in a song her mother used to sing to her as a child, The Bonny Earl of Murray from Thomas Percy’s Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: The word mondegreen was coined by Sylvia Wright. For example, did anyone really think Elton John was singing ‘Hold me Closer, Tony Danza?’ Probably not, but it’s funny! They can be quite funny! Amazingly, so many mondegreens are collectively misheard. They are usually particular phrases in songs that are misheard to say something completely different and so to mean something completely different. Mondegreen is a word used to mean famously misheard lyrics and, more generally, any misheard phrase from a famous work. ![]()
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