mondegreens / Jackson beans

[Herb Stahlke]

That should, of course, have been, "Lead on, Oh Kinky Turtle."

On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Herb Stahlke <hfwstahlke at gmail.com> wrote:
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> As in the hymn, "Lead on of kinky turtle."
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> On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 9:03 AM, Mark Mandel <thnidu at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Scot LaFaive <slafaive at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> 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
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>> 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
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>>>  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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