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Bonus 88: Linguistic mixups - spoonerisms, mondegreens, and eggcorns
Have you ever misheard a song lyric like "got a long list of ex-lovers" as "Starbucks lovers"? Or maybe you've swapped some sounds around like "well-boiled icicle" for "well-oiled bicycle" or seen Alzheimer's Disease referred to by the more sensical, similar-sounding name "Old-timer's Disease". Mixups like these are not only fun to share examples of, but they also tell us things about how language works in our brains.
In this bonus episode of (ahem) Thing-Lusiasm, Lauren and Gretchen get enthusiastic about three of our favourite kinds of linguistic mixups: spoonerisms, mondegreens, and eggcorns. We talk about William Spooner, the Oxford prof from the 1800s that many spoonerisms are (falsely) attributed to, Lauren's very Australian 90s picture book of spoonerisms, the Scottish song "The Bonny Earl of Moray" which gave rise to the term mondegreen, why there are so many more mondegreens in older pop songs and folk songs than there are now, and how eggcorn is a double eggcorn (a mis-parsing of acorn, which itself is an eggcorn of oak-corn for akern). Listen to this episode about our favourite kinds of linguistic mixups, and get access to many more bonus episodes by supporting Lingthusiasm on Patreon.
Ra Ra Rasputin, [tumblr]'s favorite mondegreen
Out of context thought of the day
what do you MEAN it's about a lonely guy named Jojo and not about the glorious badass trans woman protagonist of the next unreleased JJBA arc?
Sweet dreams are made of cheese
Who am I to diss the brie
Which line do you hear in The Fox and the Wren?
News of the muses
Muse of the muses
I want to know if it’s just me and @onyxmirage hearing the mondegreen.
Okay, did anyone else initially mishear "saved my heart from the fate of" as "saved my heart from Darth Vader"???
One actual drawback to developing an interest in smaller local artists as a probably low-intermediate language learner with shitty hearing/auditory processing: good luck finding published lyrics!
Brought to you by another afternoon of " I can only make out a few words and phrases here and there. But it sounds pretty cool, and I will of course try to sing along regardless."