NP Re: Eggcorns and mondegreens

[Dave Monroe]

Now see?  We CAN both play nice.  I will add, though,
that a friend used to call "Guantanamera" "One Ton
Tomato."  Meanwhile, having grown up an American kid
attempting to decipher the Very British Indeed lyrics
of The Jam (no lyric sheet with that first album), The
Clash, et al. (thank whoever Billy Bragg always
included the words), I've no doubt engendered more
than a few of these on my own.  Meanwhile ...

http://www.kissthisguy.com/

http://www.amiright.com/misheard/

http://www.rulefortytwo.com/mondegreenhall.htm

http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/carroll/mondegreens.shtml

Edwards, Gavin.  'Scuze Me While I Kiss This Guy.
   New York: Simon $ Schuster, 1995.   

http://www.simonsays.com/content/book.cfm?tab=3&pid=404636

http://www.rulefortytwo.com/mondegreens.htm

And there are others ...

http://www.rulefortytwo.com/books.htm

My brother had one of those whatever-a-day style
calendars, even ...

--- jbor at bigpond.com wrote:

> See also
> 
> http://www.corsinet.com/braincandy/wrlyric.html
> 
> My favourite is "Alex the seal".
> 
> best
> 
> On 17/06/2006:
> 
> > http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/

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