misheard
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But things reached a boiling point in the last three minutes, when Mr. Feller, apparently repeating a misheard phrase uttered earlier by another panelist, referred to Jackson’s reputation for slaughter of “redcoats and redskins.”
I didn't actually order the Chilean fish stew ($15), but the volume level presumably colluded with the waiter's seeming unfamiliarity with the menu, such that my requests for ajiaco or chicken soup ($12) were misheard.
"The person across from me and I figured I must have misheard the pilot but he said it again," Toney recalls.
The song is suitable for a medium voice."citation A number of misheard lyrics have been recorded, turning a mondegreen into a real title.
Eleven is called out as "yo" or " yo-leven " to prevent being misheard as "seven".
The clerk was an aged person and there is a chance that, supposedly being hard of hearing, they misheard "December 24" as "September 24" instead.