The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #116859   Message #2512652
Posted By: Genie
11-Dec-08 - 11:37 AM
Thread Name: Mondegreens' cousins: Soramimis
Subject: RE: Mondegreens' cousins: Soramimis
OK, here's a MUSICAL one! (Ta Da!)

Since the feminie article "the" in German looks like the English verb that means to shuffle off this mortal coil, before I knew any German, I would read the old German folk song title
"Die Lorelei" (which basically should be translated as just the nymph's name, "Lorelei")
as
"Die, Lorelei!"