different between spoken vs mondegreen

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?spo?k?n/
• Rhymes: -??k?n

Adjective

spoken (comparative more spoken, superlative most spoken)

1. Relating to speech
2. Speaking in a specified way

   soft-spoken

   well-spoken

Synonyms

• oral, verbal

Antonyms

• unspoken

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

spoken

1. past participle of speak

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?spo?.k?(n)/
• Hyphenation: spo?ken
• Rhymes: -o?k?n

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch spoken. Equivalent to spook +? -en.

Verb

spoken

1. (intransitive) to haunt

Inflection

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

spoken

1. Plural form of spook

Middle English

Noun

spoken

1. plural of spoke

Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?spok?n]

Verb

spoken

1. past participle of speak

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.

Translations

See also

• eggcorn
• folk etymology
• malapropism
• Hobson-Jobson

Further reading

• mondegreen on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References