mishearing

Worse than the mishearing was the attempted bounce back.

The Guardian World News Michael Tomasky 2011

Worse than the mishearing was the attempted bounce back.

The Guardian World News 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's musical circumnavigation Amit Chaudhuri 2010

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".

Rupert Murdoch's phone-hacking humble pie 2011

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

2009 February « Motivated Grammar 2009

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.

Robert Hartwell Fiske strikes me as a prig and a bully « Motivated Grammar 2009

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

Prescriptivists amaze me (to) no end « Motivated Grammar 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: Bloomberg's Media Plan for Occupy Eviction -- and His Failure 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.

2009 May « Motivated Grammar 2009

The phrases you complain of are bastardizations born of mishearing and nurtured by imitation.

Prescriptivists amaze me (to) no end « Motivated Grammar 2009