" Olive, the other reindeer"; was Re: "Trolling" for "Trawling": An Eggcorn?

[Alice Faber]

Dennis Preston wrote:
> Once years ago I stood in front of  a used car lot in Calgary
> wondering why Otto's Auto's struck me as mildly funny; then I
> realized that for almost ahl Canadians they are homophones. (And
> nearly everybody west of the Mississippi, nearly everybody in New
> England, and a passle of folk in a band through the middle of the US.)
>
> dInIs, who preserves such treasures of the tongue, by virtue of age and
> region
>

I had a similar reaction when I first encountered the "Awesome Blossom"
  fried onion appetizer at one of those interchangeable chain
restaurants (Ruby Tuesday?).

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