Mistakes Native English Speakers Make BUT You Don’t Have To PART 3 - Mondegreens

Mondegreens are often funny, misheard words or phrases mostly in poems and song lyrics. They are essentially a subset of eggcorns and malapropisms. The listener of a song or spoken speech or poem, doesn't hear a lyric or word or phrase clearly. When repeated, words that sound similar and make some kind of sense (or not!) are substituted.

Blog post: https://wp.me/p9wgA1-12Z

References:
Gyles Brandreth, G. (1980). The Joy of Lex.
Wines, J.A. (2007). Mondegreens: A Book of Mishearings.
Oronyms: https://www.educationworld.in/what-are-oronyms-and-homophones/
The Pledge of Allegiance https://www.ushistory.org/documents/pledge.htm
More mondegreens https://uh.edu/~mbarber/mondegreens.html

Music videos:
Bad Moon Rising by CCR (Creedence Clearwater Revival) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUQiUFZ5RDw
You Outa know by Alanis Morissette https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mkxMJjAaEE
We Built this City by Starship https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1b8AhIsSYQ
Sweet Dreams by the Eurythmics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeMFqkcPYcg
Dancing Queen by ABBA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFrGuyw1V8s
Chasing Pavements by Adele https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08DjMT-qR9g
Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ9rUzIMcZQ
Smells like Teen Spirit by Nirvana https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTWKbfoikeg

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Music by KV:
Dawn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPN9uSo7pUo
Move https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLx8kc7mHrY
Deep https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnISS8HDPCM