Re: CHAT: Shrive (was CHAT: Return of the Sal)

Raymond Brown wrote:

> It's interesting that you use "shrived"; the dictionaries do indeed give
> the weak forms as alternatives to the strong forms.  I've heard it used
> and, as I said, have occasionally used it myself only in the passive with
> the strong pp 'shriven'.
I think there is no weak pp of "shrive", and so the weak conjugation is
semi-regular:  "shrive, shrived, shriven".

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admitted to the bar.   The judge looked down on the youngster and intoned
"Decline _amo_".   The lawyer explained with fear and trembling that _amo_
could not be declined, as it was not a noun.  "Admitted!" said the judge.

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