• addie@feddit.uk
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    5 months ago

    Yeah; as a native and fairly well-educated speaker, I’m fucked if I can form the past participles of some of our verbs

    If I swim across a river, is it now the swimmed river? Swum river? Swam river?

    If I sneak into a room, have I sneaked? Snuck? Both sound wrong.

    Didn’t find anything ambiguous about ‘costed’, it works for me.

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      5 months ago

      If you swim across a river, it is now a river you’ve swum. If you sneak into a room, you have snuck in.

      Those are correct but they look and sound wrong.