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I learned a new word...mondegreen.
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/522f6667-3dd6-44f5-b627-3af6c943d936/96A5A3C3-4245-45D9-8D0A-CBA88F05E314/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Don%27t_Bring_Me_Down&oldid=297268344" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Don%27t_Bring_Me_Down&oldid=297268344" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Don%27t_Bring_Me_Down&oldid=297268344"><SPAN class="mw-headline">Misheard lyric</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Don%27t_Bring_Me_Down&oldid=297268344"><P>A common <A title="Mondegreen" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondegreen">mondegreen</A> in the song is the perception that, following the title line, <A title="Jeff Lynne" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Lynne">Jeff Lynne</A> shouts "Bruce!" However, according to liner notes, he is actually saying a made-up word "Grroosss". This is similar to a <A title="German language" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_language">German</A> word for "greeting", <I>Gruß</I>, possibly referring to the Bavarian greeting <I>Grüß Gott</I> that the group would have heard while recording the album in <A title="Munich" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich">Munich</A>. However, after the song's release, so many people had misinterpreted the word as Bruce that Jeff Lynne actually began to sing the word as Bruce for fun at live shows.<SUP class="reference" id="cite_ref-flashback_0-0"><A href="#cite_note-flashback-0"><SPAN>[</SPAN>1<SPAN>]</SPAN></A></SUP></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/96A5A3C3-4245-45D9-8D0A-CBA88F05E314/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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