I'm sat between Lea and Tim.

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I've never in the U.S. heard this. We say I am seated between Lea and Tim. or I was seated between them. Not sure what grammar book uses this expression, I am sat. Never heard it.  I sat down is used

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Merci beaucoup Sandra !  The English translation of this example has now been edited :)  Bonne journée !

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It could also be «I am sitting between Lea and Tim.»

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To say 'I'm sat between Lea and Tom' may not be grammatically correct but it is commonly used in the UK - must be colloquial!

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If I say 'I was sat' instead of 'I was sitting' we Brits generally mean that we did not chose our seating place but were asked to sit there by our host/hostess or a seating plan.

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Americans will use ‘I was seated’ in the same circumstances, as in ‘At the gala, I was seated between Steven and John’.