Has anyone else heard of Mondegreens? I knew what they were, just didn’t know there was a word for them, and have just discovered this in James’ Gleick’s excellent new book ‘The Information’.
They’re when you mishear a lyric like:
“When a Man loves a Walnut”
or
“He’s Got the Whole World in his Pants”
On a Bkos thread tonight I mentioned this, and people came up with some brilliant examples, including the video below, linked by Anathema, which is an entire song subtitled in Mondegreens
Enjoy, more examples below the thread.