{"id":47432,"date":"2016-06-21T07:00:12","date_gmt":"2016-06-21T11:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.pro\/?p=47432"},"modified":"2016-06-20T09:38:58","modified_gmt":"2016-06-20T13:38:58","slug":"uncommon-knowledge-what-does-it-mean-to-mutter-a-mondegreen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/2016\/uncommon-knowledge-what-does-it-mean-to-mutter-a-mondegreen\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncommon Knowledge: What Does it Mean to Mutter a Mondegreen?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/product\/kid-quotes-custom-wall-art?source=blog_uk062116\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-47445 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/26653_customkidsart.jpg\" alt=\"26653_customkidsart\" width=\"650\" height=\"562\" \/><\/a>We\u2019ve all done it\u2014you hear a song that might not be enunciated in the King\u2019s English, and before you know it, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vevo.com\/watch\/USQX91502196?utm_medium=embed_player&amp;utm_content=song_title&amp;syn_id=F8FA8910-3D2E-4CC0-AED8-49F93D7BE1C0\">Jimmy Hendrix is singing \u201cexcuse me while I kiss this guy.\u201d<\/a> This odd phenomenon of auditory processing has a quirky name: a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/science\/maria-konnikova\/science-misheard-lyrics-mondegreens\">mondegreen<\/a>. Surely, it\u2019s named for Professor Charles Mondegreen who first discovered the scientific basis for such misunderstandings. No? Then it must be a strange Esperanto mash-up that translates to \u201cgreen world.\u201d Wrong again. It turns out that the term mondegreen itself is a mondegreen. You heard that right. It originates from a misheard bit of a ballad. As a child, American writer Sylvia Wright enjoyed hearing her mother read from <em>Reliques of Ancient English Poetry. <\/em>One of her favorites was a Scottish ballad concerning the death of an Earl: <em>\u201cThey <\/em>hae<em> slain the Earl Amurray, and laid him on the green.\u201d<\/em> To Wright\u2019s imaginative young ears, the line \u201claid him on the green\u201d became \u201cLady Mondegreen,\u201d and the Earl\u2019s accidental companion in death became the official mascot of misunderstood lyrics.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/product\/kid-quotes-custom-wall-art?source=blog_uk062116\" target=\"_blank\">Kid Quotes Custom Wall Art<\/a> | $55-110<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve all done it\u2014you hear a song that might not be enunciated in the King\u2019s English, and before you&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":47445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1208],"tags":[813],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47432"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47432"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47506,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47432\/revisions\/47506"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}