LL-L: "Little words" [E] LOWLANDS-L, 03.OCT.1999 (04)

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From: john feather [johnfeather at sceptic1.freeserve.co.uk]
Subject: Little words

Re Pat's reference to the >>world-wide English usage ... "ultra-violet
through infra-red"<<: the usage continuum seems to have a discontinuity in
my vicinity because I don't recognise this.

John Feather
johnfeather at sceptic1.freeserve.co.uk

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From: Edwin Michael Alexander [edsells at wwwebcity.com]
Subject: LL-L: "Little words" [E] LOWLANDS-L, 03.OCT.1999 (03)

At 04:48 PM 10/03/99 -0700, Ian James Parsley wrote:

>John is quite right in his observation about the verb "stay" used in
>Scotland/NI and England. Its Scots equivalent "bide"/"bied" covers boththe
>English meaning "stay" and "reside", which is probably how the
>Scottish-English "stay" has come to take on the meanings "reside" also.

It seems rather more logical to me that "reside" took on the meanings of
"stay" in more southern dialects after 1066 C.E.  "Stay" is a derivative of
IE <sta>, to stand thence >L stare, > HG stehen, and >E "steed", "stall",
"stable", "state", "status", "establishment", etc, etc, etc.  Or, possibly
as well, "stay" took on the permanence implied in "dwell" in some dialects.

Ed Alexander
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