New verb principal part?

[Dennis R. Preston]

Michael,

You can document my "high-style" grammar. I have flow-flowed-flown when I
am being fancy (a case of working-class hypercorrection?) and
flow-flow-flowed when I am being me.

dInIs

>A couple of nights ago on the PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Brady Anderson,
>the chief USAID officer for Mozambique, said the following:
>
>As the rivers have increased and flown over their banks, we have
>sent more supplies.
>
>Does anyone have documentation for _flown_ as a past participle of
>_flow_?
>
>Michael Montgomery
>U of South Carolina


Dennis R. Preston
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