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#1 2008-05-04 08:02:43

jorkel
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Registered: 2006-08-08
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STAYED (staid)

“Staid” has meanings like reserved, not flighty, not wild. Perhaps these conjure images of a person who is able to stay in one place, whence, “stayed.”

Examples:

Prince of Wales, Weybridge, Surrey, KT13 9NX – pub details ….
The interior was fine and felt quite homely and the service on the whole was good apart from a very stayed lady who had a rather intransigent attidude …
www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/39/3950/Prince_o… – 20k – Similar pages
http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/ … /Weybridge

Details on Conducting Lord’s Supper – Page 2 – BaptistBoard….
Sep 13, 2007 … I was filling in at a very stayed/traditional church where the deacon on the left prayed first for the bread and the one on the right prayed …
www.baptistboard.com/showthread.php?page=2&t=429… – 91k – Similar pages

Amazon.com: Customer Reviews: Heat and Dust / Autobiography …
Aunt Olivia (Scacchi),a 1920’s British Newlywed and her very Stayed British husband (Christopher Casanove) arrive in India at the sundown of British …
www.amazon.com/review/product/B0000AQS6H?showVie… – 171k – Similar pages
http://www.amazon.com/review/product/B0 … ewpoints=1

(Transcript of Interview with Heinz Edelmann )
I did one for Mr. Zappa back in I think it was ‘68 at Johns Hopkins and you know Johns Hopkins University is a very stayed institution. Very conservative. ...
www.21stcenturyradio.com/NP-8-28-99.1.html – 48k – Similar pages
http://www.21stcenturyradio.com/NP-8-28-99.1.html

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#2 2008-05-05 16:17:33

Peter Forster
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From: UK
Registered: 2006-09-06
Posts: 1222

Re: STAYED (staid)

Perhaps ‘stays’, those corsetlike garments, are exerting some not necessarily restrictive influence here I thought, and after a quick dip found also the origin of ‘loose women’...


They were considered “loose” (i.e. not wearing stays) and represent a very low sort of person. Even prostitutes are shown wearing stays. ...
www.reconstructinghistory.com/golden-age-of-piracy. php?s=&c=8&d=96&e=&f=&g=&a=103… – 26k – Cached

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#3 2008-05-06 18:24:27

Fishbait2
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From: Brookline, MA
Registered: 2006-10-08
Posts: 80
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Re: STAYED (staid)

You and I already had an exchange about “staid” and “stayed,” jorkel! http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/view … hp?id=1262 Does everyone on this board have oldtimer’s disease but me?

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#4 2008-05-06 21:04:20

jorkel
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Registered: 2006-08-08
Posts: 1456

Re: STAYED (staid)

Thanks Fishbait, I think I’ve lost my mind. When I did a search for staid, I only turned up my list of Paul Brians homophones.

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