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Old 08-09-2010, 10:41 AM
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"Where do you stay?" I LIVE in North Carolina.
I took a dialect class in college -- one of the most interesting classes I took -- and we talked about the "stay-live" difference. "Stay" is a dialectical usage, and occurs in a number of dialects (including Scots English ). I remember our professor saying that, at least as used by some Southern speakers, the usage has African roots and means something slightly different -- I believe it's that "stay" indicates a degree of permanence that "live" does not.

FWIW.

Meanwhile, I can't stand "very unique."
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