mondegreens / Jackson beans

[Bill Palmer]

Thanks for supplying the missing "a", LH, which does sort of bring it  into
line with what I was trying to point out.

BP
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> At 9:54 AM -0500 12/13/09, Bill Palmer wrote:
>>"Kind of Drag", sung by an artist/group now unknown to me, always sounded
>>like "Canada Dry".
>
> "Kind of *a* Drag", which sounds even more like "Canada Dry", by The
> Buckinghams, from the late '60s.  A classic one-hit wonder, or
> virtually so.
>
> LH
>
>>Also, the redoubtable Boy George had what I suppose was his biggest hit
>>with
>>"Karma Chameleon" which I always thought was Come-a, come-a, come-a,
>>come-a,
>>come-a to me, Leon"  til otherwise apprised by my then preteen son.
>>
>>
>>Bill Palmer
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>>>On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Scot LaFaive <slafaive at gmail.com>
>>>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>I heard one today on The Bob and Tom radio show. A comedian was saying
>>>>how
>>>>he went to a Starbucks where someone ordered a "black eye" coffee and
>>>>when
>>>>they announced the order as ready it sounded like "black guy" as if the
>>>>order was for a black guy in the crowd. How true is this? Who knows, but
>>>>I
>>>>could see it happening.
>>>>
>>>>Scot
>>>
>>>AFAIK "mondegreen" is used only to refer to mishearings of lyrics and
>>>other
>>>texts ("I led the pigeons to the flag..."). The about.com article I cited
>>>earlier says
>>>
>>>>  Coined in 1954 by the writer Sylvia Wright and later made popular by
>>>> San
>>>>Francisco Chronicle columnist Jon Carroll, a "mondegreen" is a word or
>>>phrase
>>>>that results from mishearing or misinterpreting a song lyric (or any
>>>>other
>>>text, for that matter).
>>>
>>>See
>>>-
>>>http://grammar.about.com/b/2008/07/08/merriam-webster-welcomes-the-mondegreen.htm
>>>- http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/carroll/mondegreens.shtml
>>>as well as the dbs Ben Zimmer listed:
>>>- http://www.amiright.com/
>>>- http://www.kissthisguy.com/faq.php
>>>
>>>m a m
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