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The Right Word for the Wrong Lyrics
Finding the right words is a popular online pursuit. Amid the usual rush to find out the lyrics to Lil' Wayne or Paramore's latest, we've noticed searches for "webster dictionary online lyrics," up 69% this week.
Have wordsmiths taken on tune-smithing as well? Nah. More likely, the interest has been perked by Merriam-Webster's September Word of the Month: mondegreen, "a word or phrase that results from a mishearing of something said or sung—and the word mondegreen is itself a mondegreen." So if it's just like you to wander off in the mondegreen park slowly searching for any signs of the right words, rest assured you're not alone.
Filed under: Music, Words, Lyrics, Dictionaries
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