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We know where you live; Mondegreen; today’s news
Burns
supports a great many worthwhile projects and activities but we can’t support
everything, much as we would like to. We recently discontinued our support
for a rescue centre which resulted in a few requests to re-consider. This
week I received an abusive letter from Farnham in Surrey. I suppose the next
thing will be the horse’s head in my bed.
Mondegreens
Do you know the line in the song:
“The girl with colitis goes by”?
No? That’s because the correct words are
“The girl with kaleidoscope eyes” from the Beatles’ song Lucy
in the Sky with Diamonds.
Or what about:
“There’s a bathroom on the right” from Creedence Clearwater Revival
[There’s a bad moon on the rise]?
These are “Mondegreens” – i.e. mishearing of a word or phrase, usually in a
song. Like most good things, Mondegreen is Scottish in origin. It comes from
the Scottish song “The Bonnie Earl o’ Moray” the first stanza of which is:
“Ye Highlands and ye Lowlands,
Oh, where hae ye been?
They hae slain the Earl O'Murray,
And Lady Mondegreen”
The correct words of the last line are:
“And laid him on the green.”
My brother introduced me to the mondegreen but until this week’s “Quote, Unquote”, quiz on Radio 4, I thought he was making it up. The American writer Sylvia Wright coined the term in an essay The Death of Lady Mondegreen. I encountered an example of my own in the Hermann’s Hermits song: “She’s a muscular boy”. The actual words, I eventually realised are “She’s a must to avoid”.
The News Today
The Government is “disappointed” that the Court of Appeal has rejected its
efforts to keep secret the torture of a British man by the USA as it will “complicate”
intelligence sharing.
MPs are being asked to repay £1 million in excess expenses. The Government body charged with checking their expenses is to cost £6 million a year to run. [This works out at £10,000 per MP.]
Tail End
I went for a little run yesterday afternoon.
The sun was dropping out of sight behind Tenby across the bay. The sky was
a riot of oranges and blues. This morning was the same as the sun hove into
view above Pembrey mountain. This is a wonderful area when it stops raining.
