different between mondegreen vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

Coined by American author and editor Sylvia Wright in 1954 in Harper's Magazine from a mishearing of a line in the Scottish ballad The Bonnie Earl O' Moray: “They have slain the Earl O' Moray, / And laid him on the green” (misheard as “Lady Mondegreen”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: m?nd??gr?n
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?m?nd???i?n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?m?nd???i?n/

Noun

mondegreen (plural mondegreens)

1. A form of error arising from mishearing a spoken or sung phrase. [from 1954]

   Synonym: mishearing

   • 2012, Gary Rosen, Unfair to Genius: The Strange and Litigious Career of Ira B. Arnstein, Oxford University Press (?ISBN)

     The title lyric, the only part of the original Yiddish preserved by Cahn, was a mondegreen waiting to happen—“My Mere Bits of Shame” and “My Beer, Mr. Shane” were among the earliest recorded mishearings—but the language barrier didn't […]

2. (rare) A misunderstanding of a written or spoken phrase as a result of multiple definitions.

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See also

• eggcorn
• folk etymology
• malapropism
• Hobson-Jobson

Further reading

• mondegreen on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French taxonomie. Surface analysis taxo- +? -nomy.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tæk?s?n?mi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /tæk?s??n?mi/
• Rhymes: -?n?mi

Noun

taxonomy (countable and uncountable, plural taxonomies)

1. The science or the technique used to make a classification.
2. A classification; especially, a classification in a hierarchical system.
3. (taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.

Synonyms

• taxonomics
• (science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms): alpha taxonomy

Coordinate terms

• nomenclature
• ontology

Derived terms

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