Editing Mondegreen (section)

===Other notable examples===

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The traditional game [[Chinese whispers]] ([[Telephone game|"Telephone" or "Gossip"]] in North America) involves mishearing a whispered sentence to produce successive mondegreens that gradually distort the original sentence as it is repeated by successive listeners.
Among schoolchildren in the US, daily rote recitation of the [[Pledge of Allegiance (United States)|Pledge of Allegiance]] has long provided opportunities for the genesis of mondegreens.<ref name="Carroll" /><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kissthisguy.com/5929misheard.htm |title=I pledge a lesions, To the Flag, Of the Unitedstatesevamerica, For witchit stans, One nation, Under God, Invisible, With Liberty, And Justice., Frall. misheard lyric by Francis Bellamy, Pledge of Allegiance |date=21 February 2008 |website=KissThisGuy |access-date=18 July 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111001024400/http://www.kissthisguy.com/5929misheard.htm |archive-date=1 October 2011 }} Or, for instance: "... And to the republic; For which it stands; One nation underdog; With liver, tea, and justice for all".</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Lord|first=Bette Bao|title=In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson|date=1984|publisher=Harper|location=New York|isbn=978-0-06-440175-3|title-link=In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson}} The main character Shirley recites, "I pledge a lesson to the frog of the United States of America, and to the wee puppet for witches' hands. One Asian, in the vestibule, with little tea and just rice for all." Note that "under God" is missing because it was added in the 1950s, whereas the novel is set in 1947.</ref>

Speech-to-text functionality in modern smartphone messaging apps and search or assist functions may be hampered by faulty [[speech recognition]]. It has been noted that in text messaging, users often leave uncorrected mondegreens as a joke or puzzle for the recipient to solve. This wealth of mondegreens has proven to be a fertile ground for study by speech scientists and psychologists.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Vitevitch|first1=Michael S.|last2=Siew|first2=Cynthia S. Q.|last3=Castro|first3=Nichol|last4=Goldstein|first4=Rutherford|last5=Gharst|first5=Jeremy A.|last6=Kumar|first6=Jeriprolu J.|last7=Boos|first7=Erica B.|date=13 August 2015|title=Speech error and tip of the tongue diary for mobile devices|journal=Frontiers in Psychology|volume=6|pages=1190|doi=10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01190|issn=1664-1078|pmc=4534828|pmid=26321999|doi-access=free}}</ref>