Sylvia Wright


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 gives it a new meaning.  It derives its name from Sylvia Wright’s mishearing of the last stanza to the ballad “The Bonney Earl O’Moray: Ye Highlands and ye Lowlands, Oh, where […]

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