Christmas carols and other holiday songs, rife as they are with seldom-heard words and phrasings and clever wordplay, are fertile fields for the sowing of mondegreens - especially when children, with their limited vocabularies, are involved. (We note that Mondegreens are based upon a genuine misunderstanding of lyrics, a distinctly different phenomenon than the deliberate creation of parodic lyrics such as "Jingle Bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg," or "We three kings of Orient are, tried to smoke a rubber cigar.")
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Merry Christmas!
Posted by Blazingcatfur | December 24, 2009 10:29 AM
Posted on December 24, 2009 10:29
Many thanks, and the same to you, BCF!
Posted by gnotalex | December 24, 2009 7:27 PM
Posted on December 24, 2009 19:27