Re: USAGE : English past tense and participle in -et

Tristan McLeay scripsit:

> [T]here is a word spelt 'alot', and Google
> finds almost four million uses of the word, well more than some
> established words which no-one would whinge about (no doubt because it's
> current in American English, whereas 'whinge', say, isn't).
Indeed, when I first saw "whinge", on the Net, I thought it was a mere
typo for "whine".

There is a discussion of "alright" going on in a parallel universe
*very* close to this one....

--
John Cowan          http://www.ccil.org/~cowan        jcowan@reutershealth.com
To say that Bilbo's breath was taken away is no description at all.  There are
no words left to express his staggerment, since Men changed the language that
they learned of elves in the days when all the world was wonderful. --The Hobbit

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