Translations for „misheard“ in the English » German Dictionary

I . mis·hear <-heard, -heard> [mɪsˈhɪəʳ, Am -ˈhɪr] VB trans

to mishear sth

etw falsch hören [o. [akustisch] falsch verstehen]

II . mis·hear <-heard, -heard> [mɪsˈhɪəʳ, Am -ˈhɪr] VB intr

mishear

sich acc verhören

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

For misheard lyrics this phenomenon is called soramimi.

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The lyrics are often misheard as whirling or twirling instead of birling.

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There is a section where contributors admit their more embarrassing misheard lyric mishaps and the moment they came upon their mistakes.

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One of them misheard the other because they were deaf, and a kind remark was mistaken for an insult.

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The government agent misheard the word.

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The woman at the counter thinks she must have misheard us -- 44 metro tickets is not something she has ever processed in her career.

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This myth arose as a result of a line of misheard dialogue.

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This line is often misheard, and mis-transcribed, as dance just as good as we walk.

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The reason for this is a rebracketing, whereby a nought and a naught have been misheard as an ought and an aught.

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Similarly, if a lyric uses words that the listener is unfamiliar with, they may be misheard as using more familiar terms.

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