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

[Charles Doyle]

My Arkansan mother (born c1920) invariably referred to occupying a hotel room temporarily as "stopping" at the hotel. (Dwelling somewhere permanently was, of course, "staying" there.)

--Charlie
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>Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 12:29:35 -0700
>From: Margaret Lee <mlee303 at YAHOO.COM>
>Subject: Re: "to stay" vs. "to live" (reside)
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>Ron seems to be referring to "stay" as in a hotel during a vacation (temporary). Mark is right: It was during their visits back to Virginia that my older relatives told stories about their living arrangements in the North--more or less permanent--with other relatives. It's simple really--just a choice of verb: "stay" to mean "live."
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>--Margaret Lee
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>--- On Mon, 3/9/09, Mark Mandel <thnidu at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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>From: Mark Mandel <thnidu at GMAIL.COM>
>Subject: Re: "to stay" vs. "to live" (reside)
>To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>Date: Monday, March 9, 2009, 4:51 PM
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>On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 8:41 AM, <ronbutters at aol.com> wrote:
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>> So they were just using "stay" in the usual sense, not the sense of 'dwell'.

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