Help, this earworm is driving me mad.
Earworm - a calque of the German Ohrwurm, is a term for a portion of a song or other musical material that becomes "stuck" in a person's "head" or repeats against one's will within one's mind.
In her crisp white shirt
With her crisp white vowels
Her crisp white everything
Is stirring my bowels.
Or did I dream it up?
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My current earworms are rather nice: having listened to them this afternoon, the third movement of Bruch's violin concerto is on a loop in my head, alternating with the Praeludium from Grieg's Holberg Suite. Both are on my Desert Island Discs list, so I'm not unhappy.
As for yours: haven't a clue.
Posted by: David Gillies | July 31, 2008 6:49 AM