"Stayed" > "stood"

[Charles Doyle]

"I should have stood in bed":  Do I recall correctly that Max Schmeling is supposed to have said that after his defeat by Joe Louis in the 1930s (or so)?

--Charlie
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>Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 16:13:13 -0400
>From: Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
>Subject: "Stayed" > "stood"
>To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
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>Heard on the Judge Joe Brown Show
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>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.
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>A black woman standing as witness for the girlfriend uses "stayed," despite the use of "stood" by her friends.
>
>-Wilson

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