"risen" for "raised"

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:27 AM, Benjamin Zimmer
<bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu> wrote:
>
>  On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 10:36 AM, <RonButters at aol.com> wrote:
>
> > Perhaps this is just a typo the both the author and editor missed--or a
>  > hypercorrection--or do people really normally use "risen" as the past participle of
>  > "raise"?
>  >
>  > "Campbell has risen far more in campaign contributions than his [two]
>  > opponents combined, with a large chunk coming from builders and contractors." --
>  > Lauren Sellers, "Three with varied viewpoints want Allen's house seat," ORLANDO
>  > SENTINEL, 2-21-08, pB3.
>
> I blame the insidious grammar checker in Microsoft Word. When I run
>  the sentence with "raised" through the checker in MS Word 2003, it
>  suggests replacing "raised" with "risen". So most likely it's a
>  grammatical Cupertino [*].
>
>  [*] http://blog.oup.com/2007/11/spellchecker/

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