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to continue to be in a place for a significant amount of time
- dwelling with a farm family as an exchange student in France
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How English Got Frenchified
How English Got Frenchified
And wound up with pairs of words—one fancy, one not—for the same things
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“Dwell.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dwell. Accessed 27 Oct. 2020.
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The first known use of dwell was in the 13th century
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