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GPY Posted 7 years ago
Vocabulary
Intransitive "pain" in AmE
Definition 1.1 of verb "pain" at https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/pain reads:
1.1 North American [no object] (of a part of the body) hurt.
‘sometimes my right hand would pain’
Is this kind of use normal and natural in modern North American English?
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It seems to me to be a typical speech pattern in African American Vernacular, and perhaps in the American Southern regional dialects. It is definitely a dialect, not the standard variety.
- It seems to me to be a typical speech pattern in African American Vernacular, and perhaps in the American Southern regional dialects.
- It is definitely a dialect, not the standard variety.
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It seems to me to be a typical speech pattern in African American Vernacular, and perhaps in the American Southern regional dialects. It is definitely a dialect, not the standard variety.
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