New verb principal part?

Anne Lambert annelamb at GNV.FDT.NET
Sat Mar 4 23:46:27 UTC 2000


Related: In John McPhee, The Barrens (?), someone says he had never flown; "I
could have flewn many times, but I didn't want to."  New Jersey swamps.

"Dennis R. Preston" wrote:

> 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
> Department of Linguistics and Languages
> Michigan State University
> East Lansing MI 48824-1027 USA
> preston at pilot.msu.edu
> Office: (517)353-0740
> Fax: (517)432-2736



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