The irregular verbs
| Abstract | The irregulars are defiantly quirky. Thousands of verbs monotonously take the -ed suffix for their past tense forms, but ring mutates to rang, not ringed, catch becomes caught, hit doesn't do anything, and go is replaced by an entirely different word, went (a usurping of the old past tense of to wend, which itself once followed the pattern we see in send-sent and bend-bent). No wonder irregular verbs are banned in "rationally designed" languages like Esperanto and Orwell's Newspeak -- and why recently a woman in search of a nonconformist soul-mate wrote a personal ad that began, "Are you an irregular verb?". | |||||||||
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E. C. Marchant (1890). Hogue's Irregular Verbs of Attic Prose The Irregular Verbs of Attic Prose, Their Forms, Prominent Meanings, and Important Compounds; Together with Lists of Related Words and English Derivatives. By Addison Hogue, Professor of Greek in the University of Mississippi. Ginn and Co., 1889. 6s. [REVIEW] The Classical Review 4 (04):166-168.
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