Saturday, August 19, 2006

Hold me closer Tony Danza



No, please don't. The title of this post is an example of a mondegreen. On the TV show “Friends,” Phoebe mistakes the Elton John lyric “Hold me closer tiny dancer," for “Hold me closer Tony Danza.”

A mondegreen is the mishearing (usually accidental) of a phrase, such that it acquires a new meaning. The term was coined in 1954 by American writer Sylvia Wright.

The Gwen Stafani song "Holla Back Girl" has an interesting mondegreen.

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