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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's such a confusing use. I hear that someone passed, and I'm like "... a kidney stone? an intersection?" When I was a kid, the country folk used to say "passed away," but it was very definitely a hick thing. And now "passed" all by itself. Why have so many well-read and otherwise well-spoken people taken up this sloppy speech? What's the objection to "died"? [/quote] I'm from an urban area in the South and we always said "passed" or "passed away " It's just a gentler way of saying died.[/quote]
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