Re: USAGE: Language revival
| From: | Tom Wier <artabanos@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, November 26, 1999, 2:09 |
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Nik Taylor wrote:
> > "Sound change operates regularly to produce irregularity;
> > analogy operates irregularly to produce regularity."
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> Fair enough, tho it's a slight simplification, not taking into account
> forms like "caught", originally a regular verb, or the colloquial
> "squozen" (past participle of "squeeze", by analogy with
> "freeze/frozen")
Whoa -- who says that? I've never heard that at all -- and if I heard someone
using it, I would give them that "What bizarre thing are you saying?!?"-look.
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