Mondegreens

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Mondegreen is the term applied to the mis-hearing, mis-understanding, and mis-remembering of words in pieces learnt by heart.

Carol's Mondegreen

When I was a child, I learnt the Lord's Prayer - the protestant, King James, version.
I would stand up at school and at Sunday School and repeat with everyone else:

  Our Father who art in Heaven,
  Hallowed be thy Name.
  Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done,
  On earth as it is in Heaven.
  Give us this day our daily bread,
  And forgive us our trespasses
  As we forgive those who trespass against us.
  And lead us not into temptation,
  But deliver us from eagles.
  For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory,
  For ever and ever.
  Amen.

Other Edmondson Mondegreens

Mondegreen	Original Words	Source of Original Words	Contibuted By (Mondegreened by)
Hardly knew you	Halleluiah	Christian Hymns	Roy Edmondson (Alice Edmondson)
Our Father who art in Heaven, Harold be thy Name.	Our Father who art in Heaven, Hallowed be thy Name.	Christian Prayer	Carol Edmondson
She's a muscular boy A complete impossibility	She's a must to avoid A complete impossibility	Song	Carol Edmondson (Carol et al.)
When the moon hits your eye Like a big piece of pie	When the moon hits your eye Like a big pizza pie	Song	Natalie Edmondson

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More Mondegreens

The Original Mondegreen

Jessica Mitford's Mondegreen

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Carol's Rules for Mondegreens

The creator of the mondegreen genuinely believes that the mondegreen is the correct version. A deliberate rewording is not a mondegreen.
Simply mishearing something someone said once (e.g. in a news broadcast) is not a mondegreen.
The following are not mondegreens: clerihews; malapropisms; puns; spoofs; spoonerisms. Examples of Non-Mondegreens

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Carol Edmondson <carol@cs.anu.edu.au>

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Last modified: 15 May 2009 15:30:34 EST