mondegreens / Jackson beans

[Tom Zurinskas]

Delicated

 

heard on TV.  It was delicated to committee.  Must have been a delicate issue.

Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL7+ 
see truespel.com phonetic spelling


 
 





 
> Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2009 09:03:56 -0500
> From: thnidu at GMAIL.COM
> Subject: Re: mondegreens / Jackson beans
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
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> Poster: Mark Mandel <thnidu at GMAIL.COM>
> Subject: Re: mondegreens / Jackson beans
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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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