Upstate New York stamp vs. stomp

[Wilson Gray]

I'm in agreement with you, David, I think. Can you feature a Blood
saying to a Crip, "I'm-a _stamp_ the shit outcho ass," unless he was
going to use a stamp that read "Cancelled" or some shit, uh, I mean
"something similar."

-Wilson

On 4/25/07, David Bowie <db.list at pmpkn.net> wrote:
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> With the memory of the discussion of stamp vs. stomp[1], it's worth
> looking at yesterday's Doonesbury, where Garry Trudeau (raised in
> Saranac NY, if Wikipedia's correct) uses "stomp" in a situation where it
> sounded (if i followed the claims correctly, which i may well not have)
> like some people were saying Northerners would use "stamp". See:
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> http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/dailydose/index.html?uc_full_date=20070424
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> [1] My Upper Southern self has a distinction between them where i'd
> stamp *or* stomp out a fire, but i could only stomp (never stamp) out
> something, unless it's something abstract and huge (like a disease of
> something), in which case i could only stamp it out.
>
> I've now completely confused myself.
>
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