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How to pronounce “mondegreen”
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Pronunciation guide for mondegreen
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of mondegreen with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 1 YouTube example
- Real speech example
- Credit and Blame
and they laid a mondegreen.
- Definition summary
- (linguistics) A form of (possibly intentional) error arising from mishearing a spoken or sung phrase, possibly in a different language. [from 1954]
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How to pronounce mondegreen
Credit and Blame

and they laid a mondegreen.
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Meaning
- [Noun]
- (linguistics) A form of (possibly intentional) error arising from mishearing a spoken or sung phrase, possibly in a different language. [from 1954]
- (rare) A misunderstanding of a written or spoken phrase as a result of multiple definitions.
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Similar Sounds
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