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- From: goldfarb@ocf.berkeley.edu (David Goldfarb)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
- Subject: Re: Mangled song lyrics
- Date: 1 Jan 1993 09:42:19 GMT
- Organization: The Sinister Icy Black Hand of Death Club
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- Jon Carroll, a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, devotes
- an entire column to these once in a while. He calls them Mondegreens. The
- derivation of the name escapes me, except that, like malapropism, it is
- an eponym. (Anyone who really wants to know the details can ask him by
- email -- jrc@well.sf.ca.us)
-
- ObBook: Jon Carroll has a "best-column" collection coming out in
- the near future, which will probably include at least one column of
- Mondegreens. (And what did the topic ever have to do with books, anyway?)
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