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Jon Carroll has this to say today.
New words: I note that Merriam-Webster has joined the Oxford English Dictionary in accepting "mondegreen" as a legitimate word. Hooray for progress! If you don't know what a mondegreen is, head on over to sfgate.com/ZEBU and be prepared to stay awhile.
Some people still think I invented the term "mondegreen"; I did not. It was coined by Sylvia Wright in a 1954 article in Harper's magazine. I just took the ball and ran with it, all the way to the dictionary.
Check it out:
http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/carroll/mondegreens.shtml