Misheard sentence example

It's not uncommon for someone who hears a word said out loud to confuse it with another word that sounds similar (or even identical) when spoken. When this happens, the result is what linguists would call an eggcorn. Someone hearing the word "acorn" for the first time could actually think the speaker is saying "eggcorn," so this term that has no other meaning has come to be used to describe this phenomenon.

Have you ever found yourself struggling to figure out the actual words to a song? Have you sometimes sung along to a tune for years before realizing you're using an incorrect phrase? If so, you've experienced mondegreen. This type of linguistic error occurs when someone mishears a phrase and concludes that it says something entirely different from the actual wording.