Re: irregularities
| From: | David Peterson <digitalscream@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, June 10, 2001, 18:57 |
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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
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