Editing Mondegreen (section)

===In literature===
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''[[A Monk Swimming]]'' by author [[Malachy McCourt]] is so titled because of a childhood mishearing of a phrase from the Catholic rosary prayer, Hail Mary. "Amongst women" became "a monk swimmin{{'"}}.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/98/05/31/daily/mccourt-book-review.html |work=The New York Times |title='A Monk Swimming': A Tragedian's Brother Finds More Comedy in Life |access-date=17 February 2017 |archive-date=8 July 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170708210730/http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/05/31/daily/mccourt-book-review.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

The title and plot of the short science fiction story "Come You Nigh: Kay Shuns" ("Com-mu-ni-ca-tions") by Lawrence A. Perkins, in ''[[Analog Science Fiction and Fact]]'' magazine (April 1970), deals with [[secure communication|securing]] interplanetary radio communications by encoding them with mondegreens.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Perkins |first=Lawrence A. |date=1970 |title=Come You Nigh: Kay Shuns |magazine=Analog/Astounding Science Fiction |pages=11–120}}</ref>

''Olive, the Other Reindeer'' is a 1997 children's book by [[Vivian Walsh (author)|Vivian Walsh]], which borrows its title from a mondegreen of the line "all of the other reindeer" in the song "[[Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (song)|Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer]]". The book was adapted into an [[Olive, the Other Reindeer|animated Christmas special]] in 1999.

The travel guide book series [[Lonely Planet]] is named after the misheard phrase "lovely planet" sung by [[Joe Cocker]] in [[Matthew Moore]]'s song "Space Captain".<ref name="Wheeler2">{{cite book |title=Once while travelling: the Lonely Planet story |last1=Wheeler |first1=Tony |last2=Wheeler |first2=Maureen |year=2005 |publisher=[[Tuttle Publishing|Periplus Editions]] |isbn=978-0-670-02847-4}}</ref>