Mondegreens: A Book of Mishearings

A collection of wonderfully absurd mishearings, from the well known to thebscure, "Mondegreens" covers everything from song lyrics to mishearings inaily life. This is the first book of such mishearings to use theistinguished word 'mondegreens', which was coined in 1958 by a writer who,s a girl, misheard the line from an old ballad, 'laid him on the green', asLady Mondegreen'. Building on the success of other language books like theestselling "Eats, Shoots and Leaves" and our own "I Before E", "Mondegreens"s bound to set off a new craze for all those who love the English language!; mondegreen is a word or phrase which, when spoken or sung, is misheard asnother word or phrase, often resulting in a hilarious outcome. Most peopleave heard of the famous mondegreen, 'send three-and-fourpence, we're goingo a dance', the surprise request of a troop of soldiers who actually said,send reinforcements, we're going to advance'. The most common causes ofonfusion are song lyrics, as puzzled listeners struggle to work out why Theeatles were singing "The girl with colitis goes by" ('The girl withWines, Jacquie is the author of 'Mondegreens: A Book of Mishearings' with ISBN 9781843172352 and ISBN 1843172356.