"Stayed" > "stood"

[Wilson Gray]

Heard on the Judge Joe Brown Show

Two young people of Puerto-Rican extraction from NJ, ex-boyfriend and
ex-girlfriend, keep using "stood" - You stood at yo' brothuh house!
No! You stood at yo' mothuh house! - for "stayed." The girlfriend also
says, "If I had known about hah [his other girlfriend], I'd-a BIN lef'
you!" The boyfriend also uses "ch" for "sh," though his speech is
otherwise not unusual.

A black woman standing as witness for the girlfriend uses "stayed,"
despite the use of "stood" by her friends.

-Wilson
--
Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have
found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be
imposed upon them.

Frederick Douglass

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