The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #116859   Message #3601602
Posted By: Mrrzy
14-Feb-14 - 08:13 PM
Thread Name: Mondegreens' cousins: Soramimis
Subject: RE: Mondegreens' cousins: Soramimis
Hee hee, I grew up bilingual in French and English, and the line in Woody Guthrie's DoReMi I only just found out, like a few years ago, well, realized, goes

California is a garden of Eden, and a paradise to live in OR SEE

I had always heard it as "a paradise to live in AUSSI" which still made total sense...

In a mondegreen in French (needs a word, folks), in one song a sorrowful family at dinner went from accablee (burdened) to attablee (seated at the table) - and they all straightened up, sitting around the table in my mind's eye!