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Thread #5232   Message #2907817
Posted By: Artful Codger
15-May-10 - 09:35 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Calico Printer's Clerk
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Calico Printer's Clerk
I got it--I wasn't contesting that people often do sing it that way, just as mondegreens by one singer propagate to others, but I doubt it was a difference in "flow" that caused the corruption, but simple misreading. We're more accustomed to "-ania" words than "-iana" words.

And I was only trying to counter-explain, a point that you didn't seem to get.