"Stayed" > "stood"

[Jim Parish]

Wilson Gray wrote:

> 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.

I seem to recall the words "I shoulda stood in bed!", attributed, I think,
to a baseball player. Yogi? Dizzy? Somebody of that general type.

Jim Parish

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