Word(s) of the day: Mondegreen: A mishearing of a phrase that gives it a new meaning. If the meaning is similar (e.g. “Old-timer’s disease” for “Alzheimer’s disease”) then the word is an eggcorn. If it results from mishearing a foreign word as a native word, it is a soramimi.
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Replying to @G_S_Bhogal
I always thought "old timers" was less a mondegreen and more a deliberate pun?
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Replying to @Recursion_Agent
Something I didn't mention was that eggcorns also differ from mondegreens in that they can be deliberate puns. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggcorn
10:33 AM - 4 Feb 2018
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