For me it is Mondegreen: which is a misheard lyric, word or phrase that becomes popular and gives it new meaning.

  • isyasad@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    Are they called shelled peanuts because they have their shells? or are they called shelled peanuts because they’ve been shelled, unshelling them? It’s literally ironic…