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My Life is Full of Mondegreens

I recently learned an amazing word for a very common experience – since a word already exists for this experience, I was unable to create a word for it and add it to my Dictionary of Liff.1 According to Wikipedia: “A mondegreen is the mishearing or misinterpretation of a phrase, typically a standardized phrase such [...]

Are you an intellectual?

A humorous definition of an ‘intellectual’ from a Wikipedia article — with a screen capture for the history books.