mondegreens back in the news

[Wilson Gray]

On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 11:02 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/magazine/lady-mondegreen-and-the-miracle-of-misheard-song-lyrics.html
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> Nothing terribly new here, but a new example or two...
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In addition to having heard the record probably hundreds of thousands
of times, by now, I've even seen the guy in person at the Whiskey a
go-go - he was barefooted [sic] - and I still hear "secret _Asian_
man." It's nice to find out that I'm not the only one!

OTOH, I've heard, and still hear, only "… kiss _the sky_."

Iouneverknow.

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