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PWB Peeps: Mondegreens [1]

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Date: 2024-12-20  

I’ll bet most of you have one or two in your Xmas “stuff”… but did you know what they were called?

According to Snopes, the term 'mondegreen' is generally attributed to Sylvia Wright, who, in a 1954 Harper's column was wondering where Lady Mondegreen went. Ms. Wright was chagrined to discover that for many years she had misunderstood the last line of the first stanza in the Scottish folk ballad "The Bonny Earl of Murray," which reads:

Ye Highlands and ye Lowlands, Oh! Where ha’ye been: They ha’e slain the Earl of Murray and they laid him on the Green

Ms. Wright misheard this stanza as:

Ye Highlands and ye Lowlands, Oh! Where ha’ye been: They ha’e slain the Earl of Murray and Lady Mondegreen

And for some reason the name stuck. And our friends are gonna share their favorites!

But First:

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