New verb principal part?

[Nancy Elliott]

And then there's "boughten."

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>From: Anne Lambert <annelamb at GNV.FDT.NET>
>To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>Subject: Re: New verb principal part?
>Date: Sat, Mar 4, 2000, 3:46 PM
>

> 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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