Best Mondegreens
Best Mondegreens. Top 5 Musical Mondegreens. When Sylvia Wright first dubbed misunderstood song lyrics as mondegreens back in 1954, I'm not sure she realized what she had started. Yes, she did the world a great service by coining a term for those unfortunate instances where singers garble the lyrics so greviously that people mishear the words, but it's a safe bet that Wright probably never countenanced the fact that such things would become a facet of popular culture, let alone that one day they would be subject to lists of popularity.
