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

[Jonathan Lighter]

I was scarred - I can remember lying awake waiting for the ax to fall - but I never had a problem parsing "now I lay me."

  JL

Charles Doyle <cdoyle at UGA.EDU> wrote:
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"Trolling" for "Trawling": An Eggcorn?
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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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