Timeline for New German irregular verbs. Are there any?
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| Feb 3, 2023 at 13:09 | comment | added | Gerald Edgar | In English, new irregular verbs may be formed by combining with old irregular verbs. So rerun, reran dates only to 1804 in the Oxford English Dictionary. | |
| Oct 29, 2020 at 11:51 | vote | accept | CrimsonDark | ||
| Oct 28, 2020 at 23:01 | comment | added | David Vogt | @smci youtu.be/PJVNzwTnfbk | |
| Oct 28, 2020 at 21:26 | answer | added | peterh | timeline score: 4 | |
| Oct 28, 2020 at 19:18 | comment | added | smci | 'snuck' is American-English (regional, southern) slang (think Mark Twain), not British-English. Similarly 'thunk' for 'thought', 'lay' for 'lie', 'warnt' for 'wasn't/weren't', 'done gone' instead of 'went' or 'has gone'. Answers might want to consider how AmE and BrE branched away from each other since the 16th century. | |
| Oct 28, 2020 at 12:10 | comment | added | Chris H | Getting a bit away from the point, but fwiw they're ("snuck" - although I think I'd have spelt it "snook", personally - and "dove") my default past tense forms for those verbs (32 y/o, lived in NW England from birth until early 20s). | |
| Oct 28, 2020 at 11:30 | comment | added | chasly - supports Monica | I have never heard "snuck" (or "dove") used in British English - dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/snuck | |
| Oct 28, 2020 at 11:25 | answer | added | Heinrich | timeline score: 3 | |
| Oct 28, 2020 at 0:37 | comment | added | user46563 | @ user02814 If I may say so, it very much sounds to me that the principle behind giving rise to the sneak-snuck combination is also vowel gradation: stick-stuck, tik-tok, click-clock, sneak-snuck? | |
| Oct 27, 2020 at 23:53 | vote | accept | CrimsonDark | ||
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| Oct 27, 2020 at 23:48 | comment | added | CrimsonDark | @RDBury Interesting. Burchfield, in Fowler's Modern English Usage (Oxford Press) says, "Meanwhile, no one has satisfactorily accounted for the origin of snuck: there is no other verb in the language with the infinitive -eek or -eak and pa.t. -uck. Consider the following verbs: creak, freak, leak, peak, peek, reek, seek, squeak, streak, wreak,, also shriek. None of them has shown any sign of following the path of sneak by acquiring a new pa.t. form. | |
| Oct 27, 2020 at 19:38 | comment | added | RDBury | According to Wiktionary, "snuck" was formed by analogy with "struck". Similarly "dove" (less common) was formed (presumably) by analogy with "drove". The Old English snican is also strong but with a different vowel change, so it was regularized and then deregularized The point is that the overall trend is toward regularization, with exceptions being due to similarities with common irregular verbs. | |
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| Oct 27, 2020 at 12:14 | answer | added | user46563 | timeline score: 31 | |
| Oct 27, 2020 at 11:03 | history | edited | Wrzlprmft♦ |
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