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you could at least do a quick google search to make sure that you're right.
But...'sleeping dogs', unlike some people, never LIE, they always LAY... people LIE, when they speak (sometimes); LAY with their bodies. (This expression is used often in letters to ABBY and usually wrong.)
Nope, wrong, wrong, wrong. One lies down. One lays a thing down. If your dialect allows you to say "lay" where Standard English prescribes lie, so be it - but that doesn't make "lie" incorrect in that place... and certainly not in fixed expressions like "let sleeping dogs lie".
This is almost worse than all those people who think they care about "grammar" when really they are obsessed with their petty ideas of correct orthography.
But...'sleeping dogs', unlike some people, never LIE, they always LAY... people LIE, when they speak (sometimes); LAY with their bodies. (This expression is used often in letters to ABBY and usually wrong.)
Nope, wrong, wrong, wrong. One lies down. One lays a thing down. If your dialect allows you to say "lay" where Standard English prescribes lie, so be it - but that doesn't make "lie" incorrect in that place... and certainly not in fixed expressions like "let sleeping dogs lie".
This is almost worse than all those people who think they care about "grammar" when really they are obsessed with their petty ideas of correct orthography.
