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Thread #152867 Message #3576853
Posted By: MGM·Lion
18-Nov-13 - 05:56 PM
Thread Name: Mathy Groves - oil of green
Subject: RE: Mathy Groves - oil of green
Well yes, Don; it appears that you at least accepted that he had seen what he claimed to have done. So OK to your suggestion that a mondegreen might have occurred at some unidentifiable point during the version's transmission. But it was to those who seemed to be saying that he couldn't have seen what he said he had, and [un]helpfully offering putative alternatives, that my remarks were mainly addressed. Surely they should first have checked, as I did, whether such a version did in fact exist. I didn't have a lot of difficulty locating it in precisely the form he had cited in a readily accessible standard collection.
~M~