Re: USAGE : English past tense and participle in -et
| From: | Tristan McLeay <zsau@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, December 28, 2003, 2:52 |
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On Sat, 27 Dec 2003, Mark J. Reed wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 08:59:38PM -0500, John Cowan wrote:
> > Indeed, when I first saw "whinge", on the Net, I thought it was a mere
> > typo for "whine".
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> Ditto.
You funny people, everyone knows a whine is an annoying high-pitched
noise :)
> > There is a discussion of "alright" going on in a parallel universe
> > *very* close to this one....
>
> Good analogy; the cases are quite similar.
I wouldn't've thought so. 'Alright' can't be separated, and it's
pronounced differently (silent l) from how 'all right' would be (IMD). The
only ligitimate argument against it is that there's an argument against
it.
> Even in my more prescriptive moods, I find "alright" a teeny bit more
> acceptable than "alot", and indeed the former even appears in my
> dictionary while the latter does not. Tellingly, its only "definition"
> is that it is an alternate spelling of "all right".
Is 'all right' in the dictionary separately then? Because 'alright'
doesn't mean 'everything is correct', but 'okay'.
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Tristan
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