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Hold Me Closer, Tony Danza

Word of the day: mondegreen

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.

Example: There’s a bathroom on the right (the line at the end of each verse of “Bad Moon Rising” by Creedence Clearwater Revival: “There’s a bad moon on the rise”)

Learned while looking up the lyrics to “Tiny Dancer” after watching Dave Grohl’s very cool acoustic version: