Y HALO THAR WORLD
Oct. 10th, 2007 06:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
owlLIE, verb intransitive, to be or become horizontal. Past LAY, passive participle LAIN, active participle LYING
LAY, verb transitive, to place in a horizontal position. Also what birds do with eggs. Past tense LAID, passive participle LAID, active LAYING.
I am so used to bands singing to people to 'lay down beside them' (being in need of an egg, one presumes) that I was startled to hear Snow Patrol actually get it right. Yay for NI linguistic conservatism.
LAY, verb transitive, to place in a horizontal position. Also what birds do with eggs. Past tense LAID, passive participle LAID, active LAYING.
I am so used to bands singing to people to 'lay down beside them' (being in need of an egg, one presumes) that I was startled to hear Snow Patrol actually get it right. Yay for NI linguistic conservatism.
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Date: 2007-10-10 05:53 pm (UTC)