The dark side of mondegreens—how a simple mishearing can lead to wrongful conviction
Wednesday, June 7, 2017 - 08:22
in Psychology & Sociology
We are all familiar with mondegreens. Even if you don't know the word, you'll have had the experience. Mondegreens are funny mishearings—famously of song lyrics (think: "there's a bad moon on the rise" misheard as "there's a bathroom on the right").