A mondegreen / Ë m É n d Éª É¡ r iË n / is a mishearing or misinterpretation of a phrase as a result of near-homophony, in a way that gives it a new meaning. Mondegreens are most often created by a person listening to a poem or a song; the listener, being unable to clearly hear a lyric, substitutes words that sound similar and make some kind of sense. American writer Sylvia Wright coined the term in 1954, writing about how as a girl she had misheard the lyric ...and laid him on the green in a Scottish ballad as ...and Lady Mondegreen.
Often, facilities. 1  something designed, built, installed, etc., to serve a specific function affording a convenience or service: transportation facilities; educational facilities; a new research facility.
facility. (Easiness), noun ability, adeptness, adroitness, capability, competence, deftness, dexterity, ease, expertise, expertness, facilitas, flexibility, fluency, freeeom from difficulty, grace, gracefulness, proficiency, quickness, readiness, ready ability, skill, smoothness.n that time he acquired a somewhat ready facility in the use of that dialect, by means of which he was to carry the instructions of spiritual truth to the men of the forest, though as late as 1649 he still lamented his want of skill in this respect. Grandfather's Chair by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context.