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From: debray@sbcs.UUCP (Saumya Debray)
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Subject: Re: literacy
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Date: Mon, 4-Nov-85 13:09:37 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov  4 13:09:37 1985
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One that really irritates me is the use of "lay" when the user means "lie",
as in "I was laying on my bed when ...".  It's bad enough to have to hear
it from the plebs, I now find the rot spreading to the radio as well!

Don't these people know that in polite society, "lay" is not used as a
present tense verb in public?
-- 
Saumya Debray
SUNY at Stony Brook

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