Re: irregularities
| From: | Elliott Lash <al260@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, June 13, 2001, 3:05 |
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anyë Nik Taylor
<< Elliott Lash wrote:
> sleep > slept
> leave > left
> dream > dreamt
> *learn > learnt (learned)
> meet > met
> keep > kept
> read > read
Are you saying that you say /rEt/ for the past tense of "read"? If so, I don't
think I've ever heard that usage.
No...I don't say /rEt/. I meant the vowel change is there, as is a "supposed" dental
suffix (this time /d/ as in /smEld/, but perhaps this one fits better in the
lingering strong verb category.
Elliott