Date:  Tue, 19 Sep 1995 08:57:16 -0400

From:  "Winfield, Laurie" <lwinfield[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]RINET.HUNTON.COM>

Subject: Re: Mondegreens



Yeah, but what the heck is a mondegreen? Am I dense or what?

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From: American Dialect Society

To: Multiple recipients of list ADS

Subject: Re: Mondegreens

Date: Tuesday, September 19, 1995 8:12AM



> If you say pyulitzer, you would never have misheard the prize as "Pullet

     ^^^                  ^^^^^

> Surprise." Guess this whole thing didn't make much sense, then.



I say pyulitzer but don't have any trouble recognizing pullitzer as a

yankee variation of the same word. So "pullet surprise" works fine.

  --Natalie (maynor[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ra.msstate.edu)