mondegreenとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Coined by American journalist and editor Sylvia Wright in 1954 in Harper's Magazine from mishearing a line in the Scottish ballad The Bonnie Earl o' Moray: “They have slain the Earl o' Moray, / And laid him on the green”, the second line being misheard as, “And Lady Mondegreen”.

発音

• enPR: mŏnd′əgrēn
• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈmɒndəɡɹiːn/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈmɑndəɡɹiːn/

名詞

mondegreen (plural mondegreens)

1. (linguistics) A form of (possibly intentional) error arising from mishearing a spoken or sung phrase, possibly in a different language. [from 1954]

   Synonym: mishearing

   • 2006 November 18, “Feedback”, in New Scientist‎, archived from the original on 24 May 2016, page 218:

     Our report of a relative who, as a child, thought the classic version of the Lord's Prayer began "Our father, a chart in heaven, Harold be thy name" stated that this type of mistake is known as an eggcorn. A number of readers have suggested that instances like this in which a whole phrase rather than just a word is misheard, should be called mondegreens rather than eggcorns.

   • 2012, Gary Rosen, Unfair to Genius: The Strange and Litigious Career of Ira B. Arnstein, Oxford University Press, →ISBN:

     The title lyric ["Bei Mir Bistu Shein"], the only part of the original Yiddish preserved by Cahn, was a mondegreen waiting to happen—“My Mere Bits of Shame” and “My Beer, Mr. Shane” were among the earliest recorded mishearings—but the language barrier didn't […]

2. (rare) A misunderstanding of a written or spoken phrase as a result of multiple definitions.

等位語

• catachresis
• eggcorn
• malapropism

参考

• daffynition
• folk etymology
• Hobson-Jobson
• soramimi

参照

Further reading

• mondegreen on Wikipedia.Wikipedia