Chrysti The Wordsmith: Mondegreen - 4

Greetings and welcome to Christie the wordsmith from Montana State University in Bozeman. All of us have misheard song lyrics or words to popular recitations at some time in our lives. A misinterpretation of a familiar refrain is called a mondegreen M.O. and D E G R E N A common example is the refashioned classic Christmas tune. Well shepherds washed their socks by night because pop tunes played constantly in the backdrop of our lives. Scores of mondegreens come from this type of music. A classic instance of mana Greenidge occurred when someone heard Bob Marley saying I shop and share it. When he was really confessing that I shot the sheriff Van Morrison in his song moon dance crew and can I just have one more Moondance with you my love. The mondegreen. Can I have just one more men dance with you my love. Thousands of us Baby Boomers misheard Words To Songs By the police. It's a wildly popular in the 1980s in the tune canary in a coal mine mondegreen years insisted the lyric was

canary in a coma mondegreen is a wolf fully under used but marvelously useful term though the word has been in the Oxford English Dictionary for years mondegreen will appear in the latest edition of Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary due for release in September of 2008. Look for it there. I'm Christie the wordsmith from KGO in Bozeman Montana. Good day for divorce. CHRISTIE The wordsmith is sponsored by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and Zoot enterprises a high tech firm in Bozeman Montana offering challenging careers and innovative solutions for the financial services industry. Pseud web dot com.