Lady Mondegreen

[Wilson Gray]

On Sep 12, 2004, at 3:56 PM, Sam Clements wrote:

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> She was a three-times stakes winner.
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> 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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> SC

Back in the '90's, someone published a book on this kind of thing. I
can't remember the title, but it may well have been "Kiss This Guy,"
since Jimi Hendrix was featured on the dust jacket. I glanced at it in
the bookstore of the local Tower Records. I saw "Lady Mondegreen,"
among other examples, in some Readers' Digest-type publication some 20
years ago, at least.

-Wilson Gray

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> From: "George Thompson" <george.thompson at NYU.EDU>
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>> 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.
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>> GAT
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>> George A. Thompson
>> Author of A Documentary History of "The African
>> Theatre", Northwestern Univ. Pr., 1998.
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