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Re: irregularities

From:D Tse <exponent@...>
Date:Wednesday, June 13, 2001, 6:29
There's a Les Misérables song called "I Dreamed A Dream" that goes "I
dreamed a dream in time gone by / When hope was high and life worth
living..." I believe. I wonder what the nationality of the lyric writer
was...

Imperative

> >Actually, I've grouped these verbs into a "class" something like this: > >sleep > slept >leave > left >dream > dreamt >*learn > learnt (learned) >meet > met >keep > kept >read > read > >basically the requirement is that they be weak and have the vowel /i/ in
the present and /E/ in the past. I don't know if this is a valid category for most linguists...but I certainly classify them like that.
> >Elliott

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