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Lying vs Layin - What's the difference?

lying | layin |

As nouns the difference between lying and layin

is that lying is an act of telling a lie, or falsehood while layin is .

As a verb lying

is .

lying

English

(wikipedia lying)

Verb

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  • * 1811 , , Sense and Sensibility The Free Library , Chapter 19:
    • Without shutting herself up from her family ... or lying awake the whole night to indulge meditation, Elinor found every day afforded her leisure enough to think of Edward..

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of telling a lie, or falsehood.
  • * Jeremy Taylor
  • The act of one who lies, or keeps low to the ground.
  • * Saint Augustine, Expositions on the Book of Psalms
    • But whom could the lyings in wait of the human heart escape?

    layin

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * {{quote-news, year=2008, date=May 24, author=Billy Witz, title=Lakers Take Two-Game Lead Without a Sweat, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Odom blocked Fabio Oberto's layin at the other end, leading to a fast-break layup from Fisher. }}