[Ads-l] Machine mondegreens: PricewaterhouseCoopers -> 'price warehouse cubes'

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In an interview podcast episode I was transcribing, the firm name PricewaterhouseCoopers came out as "price warehouse cubes" four times, and once as "merger cubes". Same speaker, same episode. The acoustic shape survives; the word boundaries and the stress pattern don't.

Two more from the same batch: "Morgan Stanley" rendered as "Stanley Morgan", and a show's own name in its opening line ("ADWIT") rendered as "AdWords".

What interests me is the direction of the error. The transcript tends to slide toward a common phrase, not the odd one a human ear lands on. Has anyone here collected these the way mondegreens get collected?

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