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a misheard lyric is a mondegreen
The term mondegreen for misheard lyrics comes from this. It originated from Sylvia Wright's mishearing of the "Oh, they have slain the Earl of Morray and laid him on the green" from the Scottish folk song, The Bonny Earl Of Morray as "Oh, they have slain the Earl of Morray and Lady Mondegreen".
Does anybody know the answer to this question? Which two-word phrase is commonly applied to complicated, ingenious and fantastic contraptions of machinery, which have a simple function.
Posted by: sean og on January 5, 2004 09:03 PM