Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Irregular verbs

I wound up on a guy's blog who asked if anyone ever made up words. He used the example of 'squoze'. As in "You squoze the whole tube out."
I think we do that a lot down here and I didn't even realize it.

We say crope instead of crept. As in, "I was hiding and he just crope right up on me." Crope might be more widespread. It really doesn't sound unnatural to me at all.

Others: drug instead of dragged (I drug him to the pool), dove instead of dived (Then I dove in the pool), swum instead of swam(I swum for an hour), drunk instead of drank(I drunk some of the water), clomb instead of climbed(Then I clomb out the pool.)

I can't think of others right now. They're a little hard for me to recognize. I actually had to look some of these up in the dictionary because I couldn't think of what their correct past tenses were.

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