History Main / LadyMondegreen

** Oranges (the fruit, for which the color is named) are known in Sanskrit, Persian etc by words like "naranj". When they made the jump to European languages, "une norenge" (French) or "un naranga" (Spanish) became "an orange" (English).

A character or non-character in a show, named (and celebrated) by fans after a line they misheard.

Not to be confused with the supervillain/[[WebVideo/DoctorHorriblesSingAlongBlog Evil League of Evil]] applicant [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvBpAiOSdOY inspired]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2cQLyaV7-Q by]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_BM8XhFyoo the]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmDyADIFlUQ trope.]] Also not to be confused with {{Mondegreen}}, which is something different but similar despite sharing an [[TropeNamer origin]] and half a name (this trope is created by the other).

* The TropeNamer is the same as for {{Mondegreen}}; in a 1954 essay, Sylvia Wright wrote how she misheard a lyric from the ballad "The Bonny Earl o' Moray" as a girl. She mistook the line "They have slain the Earl o' Moray, and laid him on the green" as "They have slain the Earl o' Moray and Lady Mondegreen".

* Youtube game reviewer Grimbeard, in his video on ''VideoGame/TheRingTerrorsRealm'', refers to the player character as Egg after mishearing her introductory line. Without subtitles, her pronunciation is just ambiguous enough to sound like either "I'm Egg," or "I'm Meg." He corrects himself when he gets to scenes that ''are'' subtitled, but eventually decides she doesn't deserve the name Meg and goes back to calling her Egg.

* Inverted with Fegelein in many ''WebVideo/HitlerRants'': The original scene has Hitler [[PunctuatedPounding repetedly pound his desk]] as he demands Fegelein be found, the GagSubs subtitling whatever word they need repeated.

* The TropeNamer is the same as for {{Mondegreen}}.

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* ''Webcomic/SweetBroAndHellaJeff'' has a basketball player accidentally named "Hass The Rock", because the dialogue referencing him having the "rock" (ball) mispells "has" with an extra S. His official name is "The Big Man". And similarly in ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', Grandpa Harley became Hass "The Flame" Harley in {{fanon}}.

* A theory on the origin of the [[DidNotDoTheBloodyResearch bloody]] term [[RunningGag "bloody"]] is that it was originally "by Our Lady" (the Virgin Mary) and was misheard and corrupted over multiple [[RuleOfThree bloody]] generations to this [[OverlyLongGag bloody term]]. Another theory that relates to that term, along with the word "zounds", is that they're both corruptions of the swears "By Christ's blood" and "By Christ's wounds". These eventually were shortened to "'sblood" and "'swounds", and then became the "[[DidNotDoTheBloodyResearch bloody]]" and "zounds" that we know today. These theories actually have a bit of credibility, though.

** On a lesser scale, try playing as Mario in ''VideoGame/MarioKartDS'' and using an item after having a meal at [[UsefulNotes/McDonalds Mickey D's]]. You'll never hear him say "Take this!" the same way again.

* The protagonist of ''WesternAnimation/HappyFeet'' is named Mumble. Many viewers misheard and think he's named "Mambo". Others apparently heard it correctly only some of the time, leading to the common misconception that his name was originally Mambo but he gained the nickname Mumble upon the discovery that he can't sing. Putting aside the fact that his bad singing is [[HollywoodToneDeaf more screechy than mumbly]], he's actually called Mumble from the moment he's born, because he can be heard mumbling from inside his egg. "Mambo" proponents point to a moment in which a crowd is chanting Mumble's name and he tries to redirect them into chanting "Mambo" instead—a callback to the adelie penguins chanting "mambo" earlier in the film. If in fact Mumble was trying to adopt Mambo as a new nickname, he didn't succeed.

Sub-trope of FanNickname.

* The "an evil/a neevil" Narnia example is similar to a real process that gave us words like "apron" and "adder." People heard "a napron" or "a nadder" as "an apron" and "an adder." It worked the other way around for some words like "a newt" (an ewt) and for the nickname "Ned" for Edward; it was "mine Ed" which transformed into "my Ned."

** And "Gay Bowser" from ''VideoGame/SuperMario64'' ("So lon''g-a, Bowser''!").

** Oranges (the fruit, for which the color is named) are known in Sanskrit, Persian etc by words like "naranj". When they made the jump to European languages, "une norenge" or "un naranga" became "an orange".

** "Idiot Control Now" from ''Film/PodPeople'' (Hear The Engines Roll Now)

'''Witness:''' No. Andy was the navigator. He was all right. Buddy went to pieces. It was awful how he came unglued.\\'''Prosecutor:''' ''Howie'' came unglued?\\

* In ''Disney/{{Cinderella}}'', the King is about to salute the Grand Duke for the Prince finding love at the ball the night before, but the Duke's trying to tell him that Cinderella left suddenly.

* One theory about the origin of the Spanish word "gringo" ("foreigner") is that during the Mexican-American War, Mexican soldiers heard American soldiers singing "Green grow..." from "Green Grow The Rushes" or "Green Grow The Lilacs".