Thursday, March 20, 2014

Interesting Grammar: My One Latin Student.

I'm interested in how English is getting more regular in odd verb stems.

For example, both me and my one friend from home who runs an integrated homeless/domestic violence shelter say both "drunken" and "boughten" (in parallel to gotten).

A few days ago at a Latin lesson when my student was reading Latin and then translating into English, was like, "After the reason was tolden," and then he corrected himself to "told".

I think what's happening is that people are taking one syllable past participles and adding an "-en" to them for rhythm.

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