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Re: (In)transitive verbs

From:michael poxon <m.poxon@...>
Date:Thursday, February 12, 2004, 17:38
It's already disappeared here! Norfolk dialect never uses "lie" for anything
to do with being recumbent. Lie means "knowingly tell an untruth" and
nothing else. It's always "lay".
Mike
> >>>lie vs. lay
> >That is a sign that the distinction is probably disappearing, and will no > >doubt be gone in a few generations. But for what it's worth: > >
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