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used for sitting, is largely associated with local or dialect usage, but evidence of its use is more widespread than this might suggest:
I can't help thinking of that Tim sat there juddering his leg up and down—Kingsley Amis, 1988
Now, I'm sat in a nice car, my husband at my side—A. Duff, New Zealand English 1990
In no time at all, she was sat back on the bus going home—fiction website, British English 2005.
This quasi-passive use remains non-standard nonetheless. See also STOOD.

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