Lady Mondegreen

[Sam Clements]

She was a three-times stakes winner.

I think the term became widespread outside of the linguistic community with
Jimmy Hendrix and "kiss this guy"/"kiss the sky."  Almost elevated to
parlour game status.
http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=19990811

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----- Original Message -----
From: "George Thompson" <george.thompson at NYU.EDU>
To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2004 3:37 PM
Subject: Lady Mondegreen


> A filly ran at Belmont on Saturday who was the daughter of "Lady
Mondegreen" -- I didn't realize that this was such a widely known term, or
does one of us keep a racing stable?  I invested $5 on the daughter, having
no better thoughts, and she finished up the track.  The racing career of the
mommy, if she had one, escaped my attention.
>
> GAT
>
> George A. Thompson
> Author of A Documentary History of "The African
> Theatre", Northwestern Univ. Pr., 1998.
>