Re: "Theory informs practice" - OK?

> Alex Fink <000024@...> wrote:
> What, are you ignoring diachrony?  Back when the ancestor of "blank"
> would've been a plausible past of the ancestor of "blink", there
> wasn't any "blank" adj.; we stole that from French later.
Are we talking about pronunciation or orthography?  If pronunciation,
then we might have lost "fly, flew, flown"; "know, knew,
known"; "ride, rode, ridden"; "rise, rose, risen"; "throw, threw,
thrown."

Charlie