MONDEGREEN

PRONUNCIATION: (MON-di-green)

MEANING: noun: A word or phrase resulting from mishearing a word or phrase, especially in song lyrics. Example: The girl with colitis goes by” for “The girl with kaleidoscope eyes” (in the Beatles song “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”).

ETYMOLOGY: Coined by author Sylvia Wright when she misinterpreted the line “laid him on the green” as “Lady Mondegreen” in the Scottish ballad “The Bonnie Earl O’ Moray”. Earliest documented use: 1954.
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ONDE GREEN ("Green Waves") - subtitle of La Mer, by Claude Debussy

MON DEGREE - what I earned at the Sorbonne

MONDE GREEK - fraternity life