I've never heard that from southerners in my whole life, and I've lived almost my whole life here in Austin. I hear this much more often from Indians, though, very often without the inverted word order ("Where you are staying?").Viktor77 wrote:People down here in Memphis keep asking me "Where are you staying?" to ask where we're living. Is this use of 'to stay' a Southernism?
*Edit* Typo.
I mean, I guess I can imagine southerners saying this if you recently moved to Memphis and weren't intending to stay long, or something like that. (Or if you were just visiting, of course, but then wouldn't that be normal usage for you, too?). Maybe it depends on context?