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From: Don Kirkman <>
Subject: Re: mondegreen
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2001 11:51:27 -0700
References: <b0507.1008$cc1.53613@nnrp3.clara.net>, <200107031000.f63A0sH23061@smtp.freeola.enta.net>


It seems to me I heard somewhere that wrote in
article <>:

>"A. Jones" <> wrote.....

>> A web search using "Google" will reveal a considerable number of sites
>> which specialise in "Mondegreens". They generally seem to agree that the
>> word was coined by Sylvia Wright in "Harpers Magazine", 1954. One site
>> quotes a letter to "London Review of Books" from her sister, Phyllis Wright
>> King in which she points out that Sylvia Wright (1917-1981) was [not
>> surprisingly?] an American.<<

>A CHUM of mine who does a column for our local paper (the posh
>paid-for version , my weekly column appears in the freebie giveaway!)
>came up with a rather neat pun joke last week.

>He and his wife were waiting at Heathrow for a plane to the States
>for their holidays and passed the time by playing word games. They
>heard a public address announcement for a "Mrs. Ezekiel" who was
>seriously late arriving for her flight. This plunged them into a
>series of biblical reasons for flight delays.

>My chum came up with: "Flight 231 is delayed Deuteronomy."

>If anyone has any more, I will pass them on to him!

"We're trying to locate Pontius, the pilot, for the flight into Egypt."
--
Don


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