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mondegreen

空耳的英文:mondegreen

引自空耳的維基中文條目:

公元1954年,美國作家Sylvia Wright所寫的短文「The Death of Lady Mondegreen」中寫道:

When I was a child, my mother used to read aloud to me from Percy's Reliques. One of my favorite poems began, as I remember: (翻譯:我年幼時,母親曾給我唸過帕西的《Reliques》。我記得我最喜歡的一首詩如下:)

Ye Highlands and ye Lowlands,

Oh, where hae ye been?

They hae slain the Earl Amurray,

And Lady Mondegreen.

最後一句的原文為「And laid him on the green」(使他躺平在草地上)。..... 本句的最後一個字Mondegreen亦成為空耳的英文代表字。