Re: irregularities
| From: | Dan Jones <feuchard@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, June 10, 2001, 14:34 |
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Whoops, sent this offlist accidentally. Damn microsoft!!
Dan Serriff wrote:
> If I remember my numbers correctly, English has 168 irregular verbs. And
> those are just the ones we use *now*. There are all sorts of archaic
> irregulars that are no longer used but heavily attested.
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!
Oh, yep. I'd say drag , drug, druggen instead of drag, dragged, dragged.
Pure Warwickshire drawl!
> My favorite irregular series in English:
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> think-thought
> bring-brought
> buy-bought
> work-wrought (the old usage)
>
> I like them primarily because they are so transparently cognate with
German:
That's how I remembered irregular verbs in German- if it's irregular in
English then it's a pretty fair bet that is is in German.
> denken-dachte-gedacht
> bringen-brachte-gebracht
> (kaufen and arbeiten are no longer part of the series)
And ziehen - zog - gezogen, which is take took taken, IIRC.
> I think that I'll add a web page about irregular verbs in English and
> German when I've got the time.
Dan
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Ka yokonáu iti báyan: "cas'alyá abhiyo".
Ka tso iti mantabayan: "yama zaláyá
alánekayam la s'alika, cas'alika; ka yama
yavarryekayan arannáam la vácika, labekayam
vácika, ka ali cas'alyeko vanotira."
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Dan Jones
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