Mishearing

Worse than the mishearing was the attempted bounce back. ❋ Michael Tomasky (2011)

One morning, as I was practising raga Todi, I had my first experience of what I now call a "mishearing": I thought I heard the riff to Layla in a handful of notes I'd been singing. ❋ Amit Chaudhuri (2010)

Some convenient mishearing gave him all the answers he'd wanted to hear all along, and the show would go on with no format changes whatsoever. ❋ The Huffington Post News Editors (2012)

The identification would be wrong now and then, but that may be no more troublesome than mishearing a word now and then. ❋ Michael Chorost (2011)

In a halting performance, at times pausing, mumbling and mishearing, Murdoch said those culpable were "the people I hired and trusted, and perhaps then people who they hired and trusted". ❋ Unknown (2011)

We failed to spot the mishearing: the figure he gave was 17 million. ❋ Unknown (2011)

“The phrases you complain of [including to no end] are bastardizations born of mishearing and nurtured by imitation.” ❋ Unknown (2009)

And as if to diminish its importance further, the New York Times rendered this quote oddly, perhaps through a mishearing, as "nearly symbolic". ❋ David Tereshchuk (2011)

You might remember his quote that the to no end idiom, which many of you well-educated readers use, is a “bastardization born of mishearing”, when — of course — he presented no evidence for this claim. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The phrases you complain of are bastardizations born of mishearing and nurtured by imitation. ❋ Unknown (2009)