Like this:

…but sometimes my Francophilia gets the better of me.  This week, one of my students wrote a letter to his American pen pal describing Lyon’s major sights, including the famous “musee des bozard,” and he swore up and down that “un copain” had given him the correct spelling.

Unfortunately for him, I’d been to the “bozard” that very weekend, so I tried to explain that he’d been Mondegreened.

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