The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #135870   Message #3100376
Posted By: Cool Beans
22-Feb-11 - 11:12 AM
Thread Name: Why 'in a pear-tree?'
Subject: RE: Why 'in a pear-tree?'
The all-time greatest French-to-English mondegreen occurs in the tale of Cinderella whose slipper made of vair (fur) becamse a slipper made of verre (glass), pronounced the same but very different. Made the story much better, too.