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"A mondegreen is the mishearing or misinterpretation of a phrase, typically a standardized phrase such as a line in a poem or a lyric in a song, due to near homophony, in a way that yields a new meaning to the phrase."

 

Well, I searched and found no threads. :pirate

 

So whatcha got??

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for example...

 

 

"You've got a blue asshole." (blue eyed soul)

 

Or

 

"He had a black guy, he was proud of. Like some of his friends" (black eye, UT)

 

I know, I know...we can do better. B)

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"our love is all we gots honey..." Nothing too crazy. But now that I know what the line actually is, it makes a lot more sense. Jeff Tweedy doesn't seem like the sort to use a phrase like "gots", even in the interest of poetry and song.

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