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- Mondegreen (redirect from Mishearing)A mondegreen (/ˈmɒndɪˌɡriːn/ ) is a mishearing or misinterpretation of a phrase in a way that gives it a new meaning. Mondegreens are most often created...63 KB (6,425 words) - 09:13, 31 August 2024
- of the tongue, but psychoanalytic theory also embraces misreadings, mishearings, mistypings, temporary forgettings, and the mislaying and losing of objects...12 KB (1,478 words) - 10:21, 5 June 2024
An eggcorn is the alteration of a word or phrase through the mishearing or reinterpretation of one or more of its elements, creating a new phrase having...13 KB (1,219 words) - 13:00, 3 September 2024
the BBC transcribed Bush's greeting as "Yo, Blair", but this is a clear mishearing: see Great Political Myths Archived 25 February 2024 at the Wayback Machine...226 KB (20,400 words) - 11:56, 7 September 2024
millions of users and inspired the creation of the meme "Bing Chilling", a mishearing of bīngqílín (冰淇淋), which means ice cream and is said repeatedly in the...295 KB (26,054 words) - 01:25, 11 September 2024- an incorrect word in place of a word that sounds similar Mondegreen – mishearing or misinterpretation of a phrase as a result of near-homophony Nonsense...14 KB (1,631 words) - 01:06, 11 September 2024
- goes around carrying a message that passes around to each sibling who mishear it because of them being distracted and it coming out in different orders...436 KB (8,029 words) - 15:13, 9 September 2024
but they have similar meanings and pronunciations, therefore liable to mishearing and misunderstanding. Several famous place names, including those of Japan...94 KB (9,715 words) - 04:33, 9 September 2024
of "Szeged goulash" on international menus is likely the result of a mishearing of the name "Székely goulash" in Vienna. Alternatively, the name may suggest...3 KB (319 words) - 02:09, 12 July 2024
Operation Pike Western betrayal Why Die for Danzig? Perhaps because of mishearing or a mistranslation, French journalist Roland Dorgelès or other French...38 KB (4,553 words) - 05:18, 27 August 2024
asks if he cares about anything, Holden shares a fantasy (based on a mishearing of Robert Burns's Comin' Through the Rye), in which he imagines himself...46 KB (5,193 words) - 19:13, 9 September 2024- area than elsewhere in Britain. This description may also be a result of mishearing the labiodental R as /w/, when it is still a distinct phoneme in Cockney...108 KB (10,355 words) - 12:38, 11 September 2024
suddenly changed and the stakes have been raised. Whereas before he seemed to mishear or misunderstand her words, Petruchio now overtly tests his wife's subjection...145 KB (19,366 words) - 12:58, 3 September 2024- 26 May. McCartney has said that the idea for the title came from his mishearing Evans asking for "salt and pepper" over a meal. The Beatles had often...221 KB (25,783 words) - 22:44, 9 September 2024
- Dukes about the whereabouts of Stryker and when he calls him "Bub", Dukes mishears this as "blob" and starts fighting him. A fan of the X-Men movies, Durand...109 KB (10,338 words) - 17:01, 10 September 2024
term used when one calls bingo but is mistaken. This could be because of mishearing the caller or stamping the wrong number by mistake. Someone who calls...20 KB (2,641 words) - 05:04, 30 August 2024- that he thought she was going to suck his mana out, and both her and Felt mishear him as saying "mayo". 3 "The Master and His Maids" Transliteration: "Goshujinsama...51 KB (3,152 words) - 07:18, 5 September 2024
tree" or "June apple tree" rather than "pear tree", which is likely a mishearing of "partridge in a pear tree". The 1780 version has "four colly birds"—colly...80 KB (8,147 words) - 01:03, 29 August 2024- wife of elderly business mogul Ben Rand. When she asks him his name she mishears "Chance, the gardener" as "Chauncey Gardiner". Eve brings Chance to their...31 KB (2,765 words) - 09:35, 8 September 2024
- the 2015 Marvel film Ant-Man, as "Plainsong" plays when an iPhone's Siri mishears the villain, Corey Stoll's Darren Cross, saying "I'm going to disintegrate...55 KB (5,572 words) - 01:36, 15 August 2024
- IPA(key): /mɪsˈhɪə(ɹ)/ Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ) mishear (third-person singular simple present mishears, present participle mishearing, simple past and past participle
- rising 500 ft. above the water. The lake was discovered by David Livingstone in 1859 and was by him called Shirwa, from a mishearing of the native name.
- Rees in Quote…Unquote 3 (London: Allen & Unwin, 1983) as the result of a mishearing, and withdrawn by him in Cassell Companion to Quotations (London: Cassell
- fun. Gone to Cripple Creek, gone in a run, Gone to Cripple Creek to have some fun. "Gone" is probably a mishearing of- goin'. Cripple Creek Song History