lay me ...ooops!

[sagehen]

>>I'm not quite sure what the problem is (if there is one) with "lay me
>>down." Is it simply that "lay myself down" is expected? (I certainly
>>wouldn't expect "lie myself down.") Its use is hardly isolated to
>>that baleful prayer. Among other places, it appears in "Grantchester
>>Meadows" on Pink Floyd's album _Ummagumma_ (yes, in the present
>>tense, just as in the prayer). It sounds a little precious or archaic
>>but not wrong to me...
>>
>>James Harbeck.
>>
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>If you were alluding to my "legacy" remark about  "I lay me", I wasn't
>finding fault with it, just musing that it probably plays a role in the
>"guess I'll go lay down for a bit now"  sort of (erroneous) use that has
>become so common.  There are many twists & turns in the confusion between/
>lie / &
>/ lay /,  with /lain/  and /laid/ becoming casualties that might never
>recover.
>AM
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Oh, hell!   I DON"T mean confusion between [lie/lay]  and [lain/laid], but
that lain/laid  have nearly got lost as a result of the  confusion beween
the other two.
Even up here in the "north country" it's almost too hot to think.
AM
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