Larry Blanchard wrote:
: On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 06:22:35 -0700, Robatoy wrote:

: Sawn, surely!
:
:
: Surely.
:
: Quarter sawn lumber. Sawed off shotgun.

: Ah, but you're forgetting the "regularization" of verbs promoted by the
: publishing industry :-). I still wince when I hear things like "pleaded"
: instead of "pled" and the like.

Me too. Blech.

-- Andy Barss

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Larry Blanchard wrote:
: On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 06:22:35 -0700, Robatoy wrote:

: Sawn, surely!
:
:
: Surely.
:
: Quarter sawn lumber. Sawed off shotgun.

: Ah, but you're forgetting the "regularization" of verbs promoted by the
: publishing industry :-). I still wince when I hear things like "pleaded"
: instead of "pled" and the like.

Me too. Blech.

Used to be that you knew you had a nerd on your hands when he referred
to a multipolicity of the commonplace pointing device as "mouses" but
referred to a group of small rodents as "mice". Dunno if that's still
true.