Wadja say - part two.

As a follow up to yesterday's post, a misheard word or phrase is called a mondegreen. It most commonly occurs with song lyrics, but has its origin in the misheard line of a poem - the actual line was "...and laid him on the green" which was misheard, as a young girl, by the American writer Sylvia Wright as "...and Lady Mondegreen", and she coined the word mondegreen to describe such mistakes, there being, as she saw it, no suitable word in existence.  The word is now accepted by most of the major dictionaries.