Definition, Betydelse & Synonymer | Engelska ordet MISHEARING

Definition av MISHEARING

1. presensparticip av mishear

Exempel på hur man kan använda MISHEARING i en mening

• A partially deaf Fine Gael Teachta Dála, identified in some reports as Tom O'Donnell, confirmed the secret arrangement upon mishearing a journalist's question asking about the decision of a local council's nomination of Childers as president, having assumed that the cross-party decision was made public.
• The lyrics to "Scarred" were initially inspired by a mishearing of the lyrics to The Clash's "Rock the Casbah".
• In The Faceless Ones, a double of Polly is named Michelle Leuppi; an apparent mishearing of this and misinterpretation of the context led to some reference works giving Polly the last name of "Lopez".
• An eggcorn is the alteration of a word or phrase through the mishearing or reinterpretation of one or more of its elements, creating a new phrase having a different meaning from the original but which still makes sense and is plausible when used in the same context.
• Inspired by a Super-film he has seen, Freddie sends Bingham down to the castle, under the guise of a Mr "Popjoy" (based on Lord Emsworth's mishearing of the dog biscuits Freddie is selling), tasked with ingratiating himself with the Earl.
• The name "Hamsterdam" comes from the drug dealers' mishearing Herc when he refers to Amsterdam, although some viewers have noted that the "Ham" reference may also be a pun based on the dealers' view of the police as "pigs" as well as a possible reference to hamster wheels and the seemingly continuous cycle of crime, drugs, and politics as being routine.
• It exists as an anglicisation of these names during periods in which many Welsh were forced to change their names, ridding their patronymic names (“Ap Rhys” to “Prys” and then “Price” in English, or attaching an ‘-s’ to the end of a given name to signify an old patronym: “Owain” to “Owen” to finally “Owens”), or English speakers transliterating these names to a more conventional spelling through mishearing.
• Further complications ensue when April befriends a lonely, obsessive pyromaniac named "Ellen" (Wallace Shawn), who becomes incensed at the constant mishearing of his real name "Ellen" for "Helen," after which he throws Bic lighter flicking snits, trying to set his tormentors ablaze.
• Mondegreen: a mishearing (usually unintentional) as a homophone or near-homophone that has as a result acquired a new meaning.
• As You Like It, a Pastoral Comedy by William Shakespeare (1600) – Shakespeare uses the word "dukdame" is a corruption or mishearing of the old Romanichal word dukka me or (I foretell or I tell fortunes).
• Harry Dale (February 1908 or 15 February 1909 – fourth ¼ 1970), also known by the nicknames of "Squibber" (at school due to his short height) and later "Scrubber" (following a mishearing and misprinting of "Squibber"), was an English professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1920s and 1930s.

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