Editing Mondegreen (section)

==Deliberate mondegreen==
{{Main|Homophonic transformation}}
Two authors have written books of supposed foreign-language poetry that are actually mondegreens of nursery rhymes in English. [[Luis van Rooten]]'s pseudo-French ''[[Mots D'Heures: Gousses, Rames]]'' includes critical, historical, and interpretive apparatus, as does [[John Hulme (author)|John Hulme's]] ''Mörder Guss Reims'', attributed to a fictitious German poet. Both titles sound like the phrase "[[Mother Goose]] Rhymes". Both works can also be considered [[soramimi]], which produces different meanings when interpreted in another language. The genre of [[animutation]] is based on deliberate mondegreen.

[[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]] produced a similar effect in his canon "[[Difficile lectu (Mozart)|Difficile Lectu]]" (Difficult to Read), which, though ostensibly in Latin, is actually an opportunity for scatological humor in both German and Italian.<ref>[[Jean-Victor Hocquard|Hocquard, Jean-Victor]] (1999) ''Mozart ou la voix du comique''. Maisonneuve & Larose, p.&nbsp;203.</ref>

Some performers and writers have used deliberate mondegreens to create [[double entendre]]s. The phrase "if you see Kay" ([[Fuck|F-U-C-K]]) has been employed many times, notably as a line from [[James Joyce]]'s 1922 novel ''[[Ulysses (novel)|Ulysses]]''.<ref>{{Cite news |magazine=[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]] |title=If You Seek Amy's Ancestors |url=http://www.slate.com/id/2214106/ |author=Jesse Sheidlower |date=19 March 2009 |access-date=15 September 2009 |archive-date=24 September 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090924085324/http://www.slate.com/id/2214106 |url-status=live }}</ref>

"Mondegreen" is a song by [[Yeasayer]] on their 2010 album, ''[[Odd Blood]]''. The lyrics are intentionally obscure (for instance, "Everybody sugar in my bed" and "Perhaps the pollen in the air turns us into a stapler") and spoken hastily to encourage the mondegreen effect.<ref name="MTV">{{cite web|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1631535/20100208/story.jhtml|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130129104704/http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1631535/20100208/story.jhtml|url-status=dead|archive-date=29 January 2013|publisher=MTV|date=9 February 2010|access-date=10 February 2010|author=Montgomery, James|title=Yeasayer Lead Us Through Odd Blood, Track By Track}}</ref>

[[Anguish Languish]] is an ersatz language created by [[Howard L. Chace]]. A play on the words "English Language", it is based on [[homophonic transformation]]s of English words and consists entirely of deliberate mondegreens that seem nonsensical in print but are more easily understood when spoken aloud. A notable example is the story "Ladle Rat Rotten Hut" ("[[Little Red Riding Hood]]"), which appears in his collection of stories and poems, ''Anguish Languish'' (Prentice-Hall, 1956).

[[Lady Gaga]]'s 2008 hit "[[Poker Face (song)|Poker Face]]" allegedly makes a play on this phenomenon, with every second repetition of the phrase "poker face" replaced with "fuck her face". The only known radio station to censor the lyrics has been [[KIIS-FM|KIIS FM]].<ref>{{Citation |title=Lady GaGa admits true about Poker Face |date=12 May 2009 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQlNXpPvfh4 |access-date=2024-01-30 |language=en |archive-date=30 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240130161025/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQlNXpPvfh4 |url-status=live }}</ref>