Re: VIRGIL: re: Dido, the singer & Dido, the Queen

[Leofranc Holford-Strevens]

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David 
Wilson-Okamura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
* If anyone is still reading at this point, there is a web site that
collects mishearings of popular songs
<http://www.amiright.com/misheard/artist/dido.shtml>. Apparently someone
was listening to this song and heard, for the line "I won't put my hands up
and surrender," "I won't poke my eyes out and surrender."
The technical term for such mishearings is 'mondegreen', from a Scottish 
ballad that included the line:

They have slain the Earl o' Murray
and they've laid him on the green.
The latter line was misheard as

and the Lady Mondegreen.

Leofranc Holford-Strevens
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