{"id":164,"date":"2003-02-18T21:09:48","date_gmt":"2003-02-19T05:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=164"},"modified":"2006-12-24T11:35:27","modified_gmt":"2006-12-24T19:35:27","slug":"i-kissed-this-guy-and-lady-mondegreen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aprilgem.com\/log\/?p=164","title":{"rendered":"I Kissed This Guy and Lady Mondegreen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Come ride a train of thought with me for a while; this journey has a serendipitous end.<\/p>\n

I don’t check my referral logs as often as I think most webbers do; the only statistic that truly interests me is the number one search referral for any given month. Last month it was cat shit<\/a>, and this month it’s excuse me while I kiss this guy<\/a>. Up until recently, it was hardly even on the radar, but as I write this, I hold the top spot on the Google search page for that particular phrase—with or without quotation marks.<\/p>\n

I cannot explain this sudden interest in misheard Jimi Hendrix lyrics<\/a>, nor can I explain why I rank so high for such a search. Not only do I not mention Jimi Hendrix or his song “Purple Haze<\/a>” at all in the page to which Google links<\/a>, but the content on that page is really mostly about an alien and an alien sky<\/a>. I just don’t get it. Surely, that’s not what people are hoping to find.<\/p>\n

So I decided to do a little research of my own, and I somehow stumbled onto this<\/a>, a wonderful collection of even more misheard lyrics and verses—including “Round John Virgin” of “Silent Night” and the ever patriotic “I pledge a lesion to the flag, of the United States of America, and to the republic for Richard Stans, one naked individual, with liver tea and just this for all…”<\/p>\n

I couldn’t believe it. Emily<\/a> Litella<\/a> and I<\/a> are not alone, and there’s actually a name for the little flubs we make: mondegreen<\/a>!<\/p>\n

Granted, mondegreen<\/a> hasn’t yet been accepted into the dictionary, but it seems like every sesquipedalian already views the word as legitimate. How could they not? The etymology behind it<\/a> is a lot more interesting than that behind most other words.<\/p>\n

Well… interesting to me<\/i>, anyway.<\/p>\n

When the following words:
\nThey hae slay the Earl of Murray
\nAnd laid him on the green<\/i><\/p>\n

…somehow end up as:
\nThey hae slay the Earl of Murray
\nAnd Lady Mondegreen<\/i><\/p>\n

…then that’s a person after my very own heart, indeed.<\/p>\n

So, long live Lady Mondegreen<\/a>!
\n[Excuse me while I kiss her, too.]<\/p>\nShare this post:

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Come ride a train of thought with me for a while; this journey has a serendipitous end. I don’t check my referral logs as often as I think most webbers do; the only statistic that truly interests me is the number one search referral for any given month. Last month it was cat shit, and this month it’s excuse me while I kiss this guy. Up until recently, it was hardly even on the radar, but as I write this,…<\/p>\n

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