I learned a new word today. Mondegreen. According to Wikipedia, “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 yields a new meaning to the phrase.”
Now, you are probably wondering how in the world I came upon this word. Well, Allan and I were riding in the car the other day listening to our 60’s music on Spotify, when the song “Judy in the Skies” came on. Or so we thought. Imagine our embarrassment when I happened to glance down to the monitor where it lists the name of the song we are now singing at the top of our lungs…to find out it’s JUDY IN DISGUISE!!! Geez…all these years we have been singing the wrong lyrics. So we came home and Allan looked it up and came across the word mondegreen. Who knew.
It’s almost as funny as the day our son Ken came home from Sunday School and went into his piggy bank and took out almost all of his money. He said he had to give it to a lady named Mrs. Sippi who, according to his Sunday School teacher, was very poor. It wasn’t until the following week when we questioned the teacher that we found out the money was going to Mississippi – the state!!!
So now you have learned a new word too. And if truth be told, for years I also sang “There’s a bathroom on the right” in the Creedence Clearwater Revival song. But come on, fess up, I’m sure you did too.



































