So, for the past 30 years I would hear this song about once every eight months in a supermarket or on the radio. And I always, always, always misheard the main lyric. It sounded like “Kyrie eleizon”, but it couldn’t be that because that doesn’t mean anything. Today, I finally caught the song with my phone in my hand and used the full power of the internet to solve the 30 year mystery…
“Kyrie eleison”. It was “Kyrie eleison”.
Well that was anti-climatic!
My dictionary word of the day…
the
/the’, THe/
meaningless sound
1. Sound inserted into specific places in a sentence to prevent an English speaker from sounding like a cartoon caveman.
I suppose “the” has one legitimate use where it adds information to the sentence: When a person is acknowledging the presence of a unique and important entity.
You are THE Abe Froman?!