Did you know that misunderstood lyrics have their own special word? They are called "mondegreens." The neologism was coined in 1954 in the magazine Harper's Bazaar when a woman named Sylvia Wright discovered, to her surprise, that the last line of a famous Scottish ballad was "and they laid him on the green", and not, as she had always…
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