mondegreen: [mon-di-green] noun a word or phrase resulting from a misinterpretation of a word or phrase that has been hear
(from the Scottish ballad `The Bonny Earl of Murray', in which the line 'laid him on the green' can be misheard as 'Lady Mondegreen')
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Lord Polonius: What do you read, my lord?
Hamlet: Words, words, words.
Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2
Hamlet: Words, words, words.
Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2
These are words that inspire me, words that make me see things that aren't there, words that dream dreams. And that I imagine would be a fabulous new addition to my vocabulary.
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But words are things, and a small drop of ink,
Falling like dew upon a thought, produces
That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
---Lord Byron
Falling like dew upon a thought, produces
That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
---Lord Byron
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