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Has the present participle disappeared from use in America/Oz/NZ/Canada?

Are people ever 'sitting' anymore or are they always 'sat'?

Would you say:

I'm sat here. / I'm sitting here.

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Miserablegitsometimes · 51-55, M

yes it should be I am sitting here, and when you have walked away, 'I sat there'. The thing I hate is actually the reverse, where historians use present tense for things that have occurred already :)