Pain in the English
Pain in the English

Unpacking English, Bit by Bit

A community for questioning, nitpicking, and debating the quirks and rules of the English language.

Pain in the English
Pain in the English

Unpacking English, Bit by Bit

A community for questioning, nitpicking, and debating the quirks and rules of the English language.

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June 23, 2021

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He was sat

  • June 23, 2021, 4:13am

This construction is all over the place in a book I'm reading -- not as spoken character dialect but as narration. It really threw me, I thought the author had no editor lol. Not sure it "sits" right (ha ha, see what I did there?) in a novel that's not otherwise regional dialect centric.