Thursday, 13 June 2013
Old Words Surviving as Fossils
Posted on 13:34 by Unknown
Photo by Donald Marshall
Beloit College Geology Dept., Beloit, WI
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We all know that the past tense for go is went, which makes it an irregular verb. Actually went is the past tense of another verb, whose present tense vanished long time ago: wend. And in those old times the past tense for go was gaed. It so
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