On Hearing The Wrong Words

 I recently read an amusing story about someone who spent most of his youth under the impression that the quote "Knowledge is power" was the first half of a paired concept with France is bacon being the appropriate follow up. Two concepts? Or, the second supports and explains the first half? Hearing it allowed for a confusion that was only remedied, as the story went, when finally it was seen written out.

"Knowledge is power"- Francis Bacon.

I suspect we have all done that. I know I have. Song lyrics come to mind. There was a particular section of the Elton John Rocket Man song that I simply could not hear correctly and thus invented words that may have worked for the situation. Alas, I eventually found the actual lyric. It must be a common human experience, I believe.

So common it turns out that there are actually names for various types of this mistake. I am tempted to write 'click hear' as I link to an entertaining article which explains. Instead I'll place it after this paragraph without the trite spelling. Try it.

CLICK HERE

And, add to your vocabulary these words:

Mondegreen

Eggcorn

Oronym

The McGurk Effect

And with that I say, chow!