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Edith
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I suppose most teachers are familiar with the child who is convinced that God's first name is Peter, 'Thanks Peter God, but I was flummoxed what I was observing a student in a Year 4 Class last week. The question was 'Why do we thank God for the drains?' Both the student and I we're mystified. 'You know' she said 'where the watchmen is in the waste places and they have to mind the drains'.
Light dawned.
Our God reigns. It will never be the same again.
Are there any other mishearings that put a new vision in the mind?
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
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I was always fond of "And lead a snot into temptation."
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Lothiriel
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Originally posted by Edith:
I suppose most teachers are familiar with the child who is convinced that God's first name is Peter, 'Thanks Peter God, ...
I was flummoxed until I said this to myself several times in an r-less accent. Pond difference there.
One of my favourite mis-hearings is the opening line of the Easter hymn "Low in the gravy lay Jesus my saviour".
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(Ken's here again.) ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Fr Weber
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Originally posted by Lothiriel:
quote:
Originally posted by Edith:
I suppose most teachers are familiar with the child who is convinced that God's first name is Peter, 'Thanks Peter God, ...
I was flummoxed until I said this to myself several times in an r-less accent. Pond difference there.
One of my favourite mis-hearings is the opening line of the Easter hymn "Low in the gravy lay Jesus my saviour".
With the mighty chorus "Up from the gravy and toast!"
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justlooking
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I'm quite fond of :
"My hope to follow Julie is in thy strength alone"
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Diomedes
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As a child I was always quite happy singing about 'A daily round the common' - exercise is good and you'd probably take the dog.
I was more curious about the mysterious furniture shop but 'Task will furnish all we need to ask' so that was OK too.
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Op.2 was happily singing one of the songs from one of her 'Jesus CDs' when I heard her proclaim, 'He leads through green pasta, I'll walk with him always'.
Dinner time will never be the same again...
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bib
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(The Angel Gabriel) - "most highly flavoured gravy, gloria." Also at school saying the Lord's prayer (traditional version) I thought the words were "Our Father we chart in heaven, hello be thy mane."
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balaam
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Originally posted by bib:
I thought the words were "Our Father we chart in heaven, hello be thy mane."
It is the words introducing the Lord's Prayer that have been misheard the most. We even have a shipmate named after it.
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Close relative of that elusive Canadian reptile, the prairie tortoise.
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Belle Ringer
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I guess I was an early reader still when I fell in love with the hymn "there's a wildness in God's mercy like the wildness of the sea." DECADES later I read the hymn and saw the word is wideness; I've never liked the hymn since, stripped of the exuberance of wildness.
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BroJames
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Originally posted by justlooking:
I'm quite fond of :
"My hope to follow Julie is in thy strength alone"
It goes with "You shall go out with Joy…"
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Pure Sunshine
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I used to think that 'The Lord of the Dance' featured the line 'and I'll lead you all in the dance settee'. Was that just me?
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posted by BroJames:
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Originally posted by justlooking:
I'm quite fond of :
"My hope to follow Julie is in thy strength alone"
It goes with "You shall go out with Joy…"
which may or may not be better than "full enjoyment of Felicity"
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Gracious rebel
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Originally posted by Pure Sunshine:
I used to think that 'The Lord of the Dance' featured the line 'and I'll lead you all in the dance settee'. Was that just me?
No it wasn't just you! ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
We used to sing a song in Sunday School that began 'I met Jesus at the crossroads, where the two ways meet...' As a young child for some bizarre reason this brought to mind an enormous set of butchers scales weighing slabs of meat, set up at the crossroads like a signpost. The name of this device must have been called a 'Too' for this was 'where the too weighs meat'.
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Angloid
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Originally posted by Belle Ringer:
I guess I was an early reader still when I fell in love with the hymn "there's a wildness in God's mercy like the wildness of the sea." DECADES later I read the hymn and saw the word is wideness; I've never liked the hymn since, stripped of the exuberance of wildness.
More a misreading than a mishearing: there's a Widnes in God's Mersey... and I'm sure there is, as it's only down the road from here.
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In primary school we used to sing the prayer 'Lord keep us safe this night, secure from all our fears' and I never understood why I had to wade in amongst everyone else's fears to seek my own.
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... through Him we offer you arseholes and bodies ...
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I think I've posted this before on one of our periodic threads on this theme...
As a young child, I could never understand the hymn that has the line:
'Worthy the Lamb that died, they cry, to be exalted thus..'
Worthy the Lamb was obviously like Larry the Lamb. It was sad that he died, which was obviously why they were crying, but the rest just didn't make a proper sentence.
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cliffdweller
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Originally posted by kingsfold:
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posted by BroJames:
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Originally posted by justlooking:
I'm quite fond of :
"My hope to follow Julie is in thy strength alone"
It goes with "You shall go out with Joy…"
which may or may not be better than "full enjoyment of Felicity"
...or "a virtuous woman who can find? For her price is far above rubies..." (Prov. 31) followed by, "how much does Ruby charge?"
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Timothy the Obscure
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I suppose most teachers are familiar with the child who is convinced that God's first name is Peter, 'Thanks Peter God...
Nonsense, everybody knows God's name is Harold: "Our father who art in heaven, Harold be thy name..."
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Steve H
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When I was small, I thought one line in Charles Wesley's childrens hymn "Gentle Jesus, meek and mild" was "Pity mice in Plicity". I wondered where Plicity was, and why it was such a bad place for mice. According to my parents, I also thought that the next line was "suffer me to come to tea", but I don't remember that. Pity my simplicity, indeed!
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Steve H
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Originally posted by Timothy the Obscure:
everybody knows God's name is Harold: "Our father who art in heaven, Harold be thy name..."
That, apparently, was what my late uncle Harold thought when he was small, also "Hark the Harold angels sing". He always was a conceited bugger.
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Steve H
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Let me be the first to mention that this kind of mishearing is called a Mondagreen, from the old Scottish folk-song, which includes the lines, in the misheard version, "They hae killed the Earl o' Moray, and Lady Mondagreen" (really "laid him on the green").
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Firenze
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Originally posted by Steve H:
Let me be the first to mention that this kind of mishearing is called a Mondagreen
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The first on this occasion, but the term is familiar on The Ship.
PS Multiple posts tends to come across as a trifle monopolising.
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WhyNotSmile
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In Sunday School we used to sing a song called something like "My Jesus left Heaven's bright glory" which included the line "But He's coming back in great splendour".
For years I heard it as "He's coming back in September". It never seemed to bother me that He blatantly didn't come back in any of the Septembers in these years.
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Gill H
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I also sang about the the Lord of the darned settee.
Not a hymn, but for years I sang a line from "When you wish upon a star" as "Like a boat out of the blue, fate steps in and sees you through" instead of "bolt". I'd probably not heard of a bolt from the blue, and the image of a rescue boat emerging from a blue mist across a blue lake made sense to me.
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Spike
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At primary school, we used to sing "The Lord's my shepherd I'll not want" and I used to think "Why won't I want him?"
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Steve H
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Originally posted by Firenze:
PS Multiple posts tends to come across as a trifle monopolising.
Firenze
Well, if we had a bit longer to edit posts, they wouldn't be necessary, would they?
[ 23. May 2012, 13:26: Message edited by: Steve H ]
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
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In the Divine Praises, "Blessed be her holy and immaculate conception" came across as "Blessed be her holy and immaculate contraption." I've heard of chastity belts, but really . . . .
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Firenze
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Originally posted by Steve H:
quote:
Originally posted by Firenze:
PS Multiple posts tends to come across as a trifle monopolising.
Firenze
Well, if we had a bit longer to edit posts, they wouldn't be necessary, would they?
You have as long to compose a post as you wish. You have as long to view it in Preview post as you wish. There is a limited time in which to recall a post for editing, but no limit that I am aware of, to the time you may spend making changes.
All of which has nothing to do with your tendency to make a number of different sequential posts.
If you want to learn to respond to more than one point, or poster, in a single post I can recommend this thread as a place to acquire the necessary coding skills.
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Nenya
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When my daughter was little she had a friend called Polly so it made perfect sense to her to sing that "Polly is the name of the Lord" - "holy" being a more difficult concept.
I've known children (and some adults ) to "Come on and sellotape, sellotape, sellotape and string" and there's the legendary child who christened his teddy "Gladly" after the hymn "Gladly My Cross-Eyed Bear."
Arseholes and bodies... how much does Ruby charge... ![[Killing me]](graemlins/killingme.gif)
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Originally posted by Nenya:
I've known children (and some adults ) to "Come on and sellotape, sellotape, sellotape and string"
"Cardboard and sellotape, sellotape, sellotape and string, sellotape and string, drawing pins".
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Nenya
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Originally posted by Marvin the Martian:
quote:
Originally posted by Nenya:
I've known children (and some adults ) to "Come on and sellotape, sellotape, sellotape and string"
"Cardboard and sellotape, sellotape, sellotape and string, sellotape and string, drawing pins".
Ah. The Authorised Version.
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Steve H
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Not a hymn, and not funny particularly, but there's a mondagreen in Joan Baez's recording of 'The Day they Drove Old Dixie Down'. She knew the song from a 50s recording by the original singers of it, a country group I can't remember the name of, but had never seen the lyrics printed, so she sang what she thought she'd heard, which at one point is "Like my father before me / I'm a working man", but the correct words are "...I will work the land".
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Originally posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe:
In the Divine Praises, "Blessed be her holy and immaculate conception" came across as "Blessed be her holy and immaculate contraption." I've heard of chastity belts, but really . . . .
It is said that the late (American author) Dorothy Parker was expelled from a RC school for girls for referring to the Immaculate Conception as the Spontaneous Combustion. ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
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balaam
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Originally posted by Niminypiminy:
... 'And lead us not into Thames Station':
But deliver us from weevils.
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Jengie jon
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Ok slightly different but related. How many think that in
quote:
My heart is weak and poor
until it master find;
it has no spring of action sure,
it varies with the wind.
the metaphor refers to the weather and not to a clockwork instrument and therefore have sung the wrong word at the end.
Jengie
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I can describe exactly where I was sitting, in a parade service as a guide when it dawned on me that I had previously misunderstood the line in And can it be - 'Thine eye diffused a quickening ray, I woke the dungeon flamed with light'
I had imagined it as my eye seeing the quickening ray (not sure how as I don't wake until the next line, but hey that's childhood logic. It was a real 'aha' moment whenI realised I had it the wrong way around - like turning a map the other way up and it suddenly making sense!
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Just Me
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When a knight-one hispers in the stories of old ...
I was clear knights were involved somehow - though not sure exactly what hisperring was.
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Originally posted by Balaam:
It is the words introducing the Lord's Prayer that have been misheard the most. We even have a shipmate named after it.
We also have a Shipmate named for the hymn line, Gladly the Cross I'll bear.
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I always have to restrain myself from a smile when I hear and then remember:
'In the name of the Father, the Son and in the hole he goes'. Could be why I have to stay a Baptist for the time being.
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Originally posted by Balaam:
It is the words introducing the Lord's Prayer that have been misheard the most. We even have a shipmate named after it.
Thank you, Balaam! After all these years on the Ship I *still* miss the regional accent jokes.
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Sir Kevin
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Originally posted by BroJames:
goes with "You shall go out with Joy…"
One of our mates in a church choir we both were in was named Joy: we always looked at her funny when the chorus came up...
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Welease Woderwick
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I think far too many men regard their peter as God!
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Aggie
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Reminds me of "A Monk Swimming", Malachi McCourt's memoirs of his childhood in Limerick, so called because as a child he used to think that the words in the Hail Mary were "a monk swimming", rather than "amongst women".
When I was at primary school, school assembly was always closed with us singing "God be in my head". I remember asking my mother one day, why God should be at "my end and my tea party."
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I was reminded of this one by the 20 year aniversary airing of 'I get so excited Lord, I'm forgiven' by our music group on Sunday.
The Chorus goes 'I'm forgiven, I'm forgiven, I'm forg......Well you get the picture.
Unfortunately when sung in a large crowd (or any crowd) it sound unmistakeably like they are singing 'I'm a Gibbon, I'm a Gibbon'..etc.
Now I know why this tune quietly went out of fashion in the last Century!
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