Re: THEORY: irregular conlangs

Nik Taylor wrote:
>
> Don Blaheta wrote:
> > but as words pass from "relatively common" to "only sort of
> > common", they tend to re-analyse into regular words, anyway.
>
> Like "wrought", originally the past tense of "work", but now a seperate
> verb.
I don't think it even functions as a full verb any more.  It only
survives in certain expressions as a participle:  "wrought iron,"
or "she was all wrought up."

Sally



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