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Re: OT semi-colons

Philip Friedman wrote:
such mistakes in song lyrics are called mondegreens.
Ah, yes, I knew that but had forgotten it. The term comes from an old
Scots ballad: They hae slain the earl of Moray/And laid him on the green
(misheard as "And Lady Mondegreen").


Mrs. Candor ("at every word a reputation dies") was the character in
Sheridan I was trying to remember.

Patricia M. Godfrey