In Prabhupāda’s books, the Glossary can include an entry for millennium, Śrīla clarifying how he uses the word. For the plural of millennium, either millenniums or millennia is acceptable. minuscule Prefer this spelling, not miniscule. Mogul Use this spelling, not Moghul. mondegreens According to Merriam-Webster, a mondegreen is word or phrase that results “a from a mishearing of something said or sung <“very close veins” is a mondegreen for veins”>.” In an article in The New Yorker, Maria Konnikova defines “varicose mondegreen as misheard word or phrase that makes sense in your head, but “a is, in fact, entirely incorrect.” The word comes from the American writer Sylvia Wright, who, in a 1954 article in Harper’s magazine, wrote of a childhood mishearing. She had heard a verse from a Scottish ballad this way: Ye Highlands and ye Lowlands Oh, where hae ye been? They hae slain the Earl Amurray And Lady Mondegreen But in fact they had slain the poor Earl laid him on the green.” “and Transcriptions of Srila Prabhupada’s talks and dictations, done mainly by his young American followers, abound with mondegreens. For more about mondegreens, see Maria Konnikova’s New Yorker article “Excuse me while I kiss this guy” (December 10, 2014): . moon planet In modern astronomy, planets” are those that revolve around a star “secondary or around a primary planet such as Mercury, Venus, and Mars. Technically, then, the moon too may be called a planet. It is also termed a planet in astrology and Vedic cosmology. Nonetheless, in any context the phrase planet” makes “moon for odd English. Prefer simply moon.” “the should usually be lower case. “Moon”
In Śrīla Prabhupāda’s books, the Glossary can include an entry for millennium, clarifying how he uses the word. For the plural of millennium, either millenniums or millennia is acceptable. minuscule Prefer this spelling, not miniscule. Mogul Use this spelling, not Moghul. mondegreens According to Merriam-Webster, a mondegreen is “a word or phrase that results from a mishearing of something said or sung <“very close veins” is a mondegreen for “varicose veins”>.” In an article in The New Yorker, Maria Konnikova defines mondegreen as “a misheard word or phrase that makes sense in your head, but is, in fact, entirely incorrect.” The word comes from the American writer Sylvia Wright, who, in a 1954 article in Harper’s magazine, wrote of a childhood mishearing. She had heard a verse from a Scottish ballad this way: Ye Highlands and ye Lowlands Oh, where hae ye been? They hae slain the Earl Amurray And Lady Mondegreen But in fact they had slain the poor Earl “and laid him on the green.” Transcriptions of Srila Prabhupada’s talks and dictations, done mainly by his young American followers, abound with mondegreens. For more about mondegreens, see Maria Konnikova’s New Yorker article “Excuse me while I kiss this guy” (December 10, 2014): . moon planet In modern astronomy, “secondary planets” are those that revolve around a star or around a primary planet such as Mercury, Venus, and Mars. Technically, then, the moon too may be called a planet. It is also termed a planet in astrology and Vedic cosmology. Nonetheless, in any context the phrase “moon planet” makes for odd English. Prefer simply “the moon.” “Moon” should usually be lower case.
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