--- Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> wrote:
> Lately, I've seen alot of people misspelling
> the past tense and passive
> participle ending _-ed_ as **_-et_.
Really? Hadn't noticet.
> Now, I'm wondering a) if this really is a
> phenomenon on the rise, or if I've
> just for no known reason only suddenly have
> begun noticing it, and b) if it is
> representative of some dialect merging /d/ and
> /t/ finally - intervocalic
> merger of them is common enough, of course.
There are certainly English dialects and related
languages that have -t where Standard might have
-d. Compare Scots "scrievit" with English
"screeved" for example.
Padraic.
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la cieurgeourea provoer mal trasfu ast meiyoer ke 'l andrext ben trasfu.
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