On Tuesday 25 Sep 2007 3:19 pm, Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondegreen > > «A mondegreen is the mishearing (usually accidental) of a phrase as > a homophone or near-homophone in such a way that it acquires a new > meaning. [...]
Amazing! So there is actually a word for this. In my maternal grandfather's house a mondegreen was called "bug-shot" because of a similar instance of mishearing as the original mondegreen. And my son, when he was about 3 years old, heard a Hindi song called "Dream Girl" and used to sing it using the words "Green ball" for "Dream Girl". shiv
