"to stay" vs. "to live" (reside)

Sun Mar 8 21:55:02 UTC 2009

I have no data on this, but it does sound like something I have heard in the 
South but not in the upper Midwest.

DARE should have something it the files on "stay" and maybe on "early of" 
rather than "early in the morning" (or "early one morning"--instinct tells me it 
could be used in either place).

In a message dated 3/8/09 2:10:36 PM, w_a_palmer at BELLSOUTH.NET writes:

> OK, thank you, Ron.
> 
> Here's another North Carolinaism, or at least I've never heard it anywhere
> else, and in fact I've only heard it once there.
> 
> "early of a morning".  In the sense of "early in the morning".  e.g. "I
> enjoy sitting outside, early of a morning."
> 
> Speaker was an early 80ish woman from north central NC (Vance County).
> Don't know if it was unique to her idiolect, or in general use in that area.
> 
> Bill Palmer
> 
> 
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> Subject: Re: "to stay" vs. "to live" (reside)
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> > It occurs in the speech of both whites and blacks in the speech of people
> > who were recorded in NC in the 1970s.
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bill Palmer <w_a_palmer at BELLSOUTH.NET>
> >
> > Date:         Sun, 8 Mar 2009 11:19:15
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> > Subject:      Re: [ADS-L] "to stay" vs. "to live" (reside)
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> > I have no scientific research to support my observation, but in my nearly
> > 50
> > years of life in the South (5 different states), I do not *recall* ever
> > hearing a white person use "stay" as as a substitute for "live".  My black
> > students who showed this preference were mostly from southern states...but
> > not exclusively, so it is definitely not a purely southern thing.
> >
> >
> > Bill Palmer
> >
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> > Subject: Re: "to stay" vs. "to live" (reside)
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> >>
> >> If this is true, then why do rural whites (and blacks) in the South use
> >> "stay" = 'reside'? Is there even a shred of evidence for Margaret's
> >> explanation? It looks like just another fanciful folk  conjecture.
> >>
> >> ------Original Message------
> >> From: Margaret Lee
> >> Sender: ADS-L
> >> To: ADS-L
> >> ReplyTo: ADS-L
> >> Subject: Re: [ADS-L] "to stay" vs. "to live" (reside)
> >> Sent: Mar 8, 2009 7:11 AM
> >>
> >> This topic was discussed on this list several years ago.
> >>
> >> African Americans' use of "stay" for "live" relates to the migration of
> >> blacks from the South to the North in the early 1900's. Those
> >> newly-arrived would often "stay" with family members or friends who had
> >> migrated there earlier until they could find a place of their own--many
> >> never did, given the harsh economic realities of the time,  and ended up
> >> "staying" with a family member or friend for long periods of time
> >> (years),
> >> or moving from place to place with no permanent residence in which to
> >> "live." As a result, in the African American community, the term "stay"
> >> gradually became synonymous with "live,"  though it originally referred
> >> to
> >> residing in temporary lodging. I hear it used often by my students who
> >> have established, permanent addresses.
> >>
> >> -- Margaret Lee
> >>
> >> ________________________________________
> >> Margaret G. Lee, Ph.D.
> >> Adjunct Professor of English & Linguistics
> >> Department of English
> >> Hampton University
> >> Hampton, VA 23668
> >> 757-727-5769(voice);757-727-5084(fax)
> >> mlee303 at yahoo.com
> >>
> >> --- On Sun, 3/8/09, Bill Palmer <w_a_palmer at BELLSOUTH.NET> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> From: Bill Palmer <w_a_palmer at BELLSOUTH.NET>
> >> Subject: "to stay" vs. "to live" (reside)
> >> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> >> Date: Sunday, March 8, 2009, 1:18 AM
> >>
> >>
> >> I taught for a number of years @ a historically black university in NC.
> >> 100% of my students used phrases like "where do you *stay*", or "I don't
> >> *stay* with my parents"...situations where the average white person would
> >> use *live*
> >>
> >> How might this have originated?
> >>
> >> Bill Palmer
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