The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #136887 Message #3128565
Posted By: Tangledwood
04-Apr-11 - 06:26 PM
Thread Name: Perpetuated Errors
Subject: RE: Perpetuated Errors
Frequently if I search online for lyrics I find them on sites where the person transcribing obviously doesn't have English as their first language. Understandably they grab a word familiar to them whereas someone more fluent in English recognises the correct, but more obscure, word. These errors then get copied and posted all over the place. I imagine it happens just as much in English where the original song contained local colloquialsims.
A minor one that I've seen in many places is in James Keelaghan's "Cold Missouri Waters". The correct line (from the CD notes) is "Pick the drop zone C47 comes in low". The erroneous one is "T47 comes in low". There's no such aircraft as far as I know but the ubiquitous C47, also known as DC3 and Dakota, would certainly be the aircraft for the job.