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about monde

monde is short for mondegreen: a mishearing of a phrase, usually a song lyric.

Sylvia Wright coined the word in a 1954 essay, “The Death of Lady Mondegreen.” As a girl she heard the ballad “The Bonnie Earl o' Moray” end with “they hae slain the Earl o' Moray, and Lady Mondegreen,” and pictured him dying beside his faithful lover. The real line is “and laid him on the green.” There was no Lady Mondegreen. Wright found that out and kept her version anyway. It was more romantic.

“kiss this guy” really “kiss the sky”, from Jimi Hendrix's Purple Haze
“a bathroom on the right” really “a bad moon on the rise”, from CCR's Bad Moon Rising
“the girl with colitis goes by” really “the girl with kaleidoscope eyes”, from the Beatles' Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

More on the Wikipedia page.

Fittingly, the trainer's lyrics come from a public source that's often wrong, so treat them as rough.