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.
Thursday, March 20, 2014
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