How about "dreamt"? I say both "dreamed"
and "dreamt" about equally in the way I
pronounce the word, but I always spell
it with the -ed.
Sally Caves
scaves@frontiernet.net
----- Original Message -----
From: David Peterson <DigitalScream@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2001 2:57 PM
Subject: Re: irregularities
> In a message dated 6/10/01 7:35:07 AM, feuchard@2CRFM.NET writes:
>
> << Really?? Oh my god! I'd never noticed, really. And then on top of that
you
>
> must have dialectal forms. I can't think of any offhand but I know the
>
> Warwickshire dialect preserves some odd old irregulars. How strange that
we
>
> never pay attention to our own language! >>
>
> I know of one out-dated irregular that I see all the time on this
list:
> "spelt". It reminded me of reading that old Esperanto book from 1929:
"Every
> word is pronounced exactly as it is spelt." Hee, hee, hee! I suppose,
then,
> that if you want to fell a tree, than you have that tree "felt". :)
>
> -David
>