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- From: yarnot@babbage.csus.edu (Jan Yarnot)
- Newsgroups: misc.writing,misc.kids,rec.arts.books
- Subject: Re: Question - what's the word for ...
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.033237.10612@csusac.csus.edu>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 03:32:37 GMT
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- The misc.kids folks solved this last week, but somehow the r.a.b.ble missed
- out. The word is "Mondegreen" from "Lady Mondegreen" which is truly
- "laid him on the green." It's substituting like-sounding words for
- something one didn't hear quite right, unlike a malapropism, which is
- using the wrong word.
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- ---Jan Yarnot, net.grandma.-- | When you go out into the world,
- | watch out for traffic, hold hands,
- | and stick together.
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