Mondegreen
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A mondegreen is the mishearing or misinterpretation of a phrase as a result of near-homophony, in a way that gives it a new meaning. It most commonly is applied to a line in a poem or a lyric in a song.
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See also
- Ambiguity
- Amphibology
- Earworm
- Folk etymology
- Holorime
- Homophonic translation
- Mad Gab
- Mind rhyme
- Phono-semantic matching
- Relaxed pronunciation
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