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

[Charles Doyle]

I wonder how many individuals of my generation and older, as children, were permanently scarred by the morbid bedtime prayer commencing with that incantation in some arcane language (I believe I assumed it was Hebrew), "Now I lay me" (as I eventually learned it was spelled).

--Charlie
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