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Chris -- 2018-04-11
I suppose if you lolled long enough there’s a good chance you might drop off, but I suspect this may be further evidence of the growing u-avoidance I sometimes rattle on about.
– Anyone within a 3-block radius of my apartment is aware that I’m on an aromatherapy kick. I loll my family to sleep with lavender oil and flower …
Loll yourself to sleep with soothing sounds. Try slow chants or ambient music playing softly in the background.
Eventually, she rested her head against Rick’s shoulder, lolled to sleep by his monotonous voice while he talked on and on about the current state of technology, ...
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A pair of flounders. The OED suggests these two onomatopoetic words may have been floundering around each other for some time.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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