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Why I’ll always have a soft spot for the lovely Lady Mondegreen

Posted by Marco on June 29th, 2001

Why I’ll always have a soft spot for the lovely Lady Mondegreen
Homophones upset grammarians. But Mondegreen Rules, OK? They are a source of gaiety in the English language. Falstaff, Alice, Dickens and Edward Lear would be lost without them. Thomas Hood made an oeuvre from them. “His death which happen’d in his berth,/ At forty-odd [...]