The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #99670   Message #1988535
Posted By: Mo the caller
06-Mar-07 - 03:28 PM
Thread Name: Mondegreen
Subject: Mondegreen
One from the New Scientist
"WE CALLED a halt to religious mondegreens - misremembered religious phrases that still make an incongruous kind of sense (2 December 2006) - but couldn't resist the one Mary Maher has told us about. A friend's daughter, she says, recently started at a denominational school in Brisbane, Australia. Maher asked her what was different about it. She said that they say prayers in the morning and elaborated by reciting the one she had just learned: "Our Father which art in heaven, Allah be thy name.""