Speak more clearly! The world of mondegreens

[callmemadam]

I have just been listening to the Radio 4 six o'clock news. I spent some time wondering why on earth or indeed, how, people would steal badgers. Then I realised the badly spoken reporter was talking about badges, as in stealing people's disability badges out of cars. Why people complain about the lovely Jamaican accent of Neil Nunes I can't imagine, because I never have the slightest difficulty understanding him.

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[minniemoll.livejournal.com]

I have just done a complete double take - I was at a gathering yesterday with a girl who works for defra, she was talking about necrophiliac badgers, in that they had a problem with badgers in a cemetery digging up dead bodies, we all thought that she had said necrophiliac badges, which brought a completely different picture to all our minds.....

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

Spooky!