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Re: irregularities

From:Tristan Alexander McLeay <zsau@...>
Date:Sunday, June 10, 2001, 17:23
> Whoops, sent this offlist accidentally. Damn microsoft!!
On the subject of damning MS, couldja possbly turn HTML off? It makes it a bugger for some to read, and a bugger for others of us to reply to without it being sent back in HTML format.
> 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!
To my knowledge, Aussie has no irregular irregulars, unless youse wanna consider attaching an objective pronoun to the verb one (like 'stop it' /'stQp@t/, 'could you' /kudZ@/).
> Oh, yep. I'd say drag , drug, druggen instead of drag, dragged, dragged. > Pure Warwickshire drawl!
Although now you'll probly have me saying this now. It just sounds right (except mebbe the 'druggen') ... Tristan