Welcome to another exciting episode of Word Woman's Weekly Work-Out! This week's word was brought to my attention by my co-worker, Anita, who ran across it in a library publication. Here is the relevant quotation:
Mondegreen:
"The ants are my friends/They're blowin' in the wind." New Yorker magazine's blog The Book Bench celebrated the fact that "Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary has finally found space for the word 'mondegreen,' which it defines as 'a word or phrase that results from a mishearing of something said or sung.'"
Example: For other amusing mondegreens, point your browser at "The Archive of Misheard Lyrics" -- http://www.kissthisguy.com/
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