" to shod " !!

[Steve Kl.]

Maybe it's because "boughten" is so thoroughly in my idolect*, but if you
were to ask me blindly to fill in the blank, I'd probably say "To shodden
runners..." for what it's worth.
*After it was called to my attention that boughten was a regionalism [I was
very surprised - I had no clue it was regional], once when I was home I
heard my mom, who used to bake her own bread in the 70s, in a discussion
about food preparation, utter "Anymore, I buy boughten bread."

(If you can make homemade bread, I don't see a problem with buying boughten
bread.) At any rate boughten stands as an opposite to homemade.)

But, back to shod/shodden.


On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Jesse Sheidlower <jester at panix.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 02:17:40PM -0400, Laurence Horn wrote:
> > At 2:09 PM -0400 9/2/09, Laurence Horn wrote:
> >> At 1:55 PM -0400 9/2/09, Wilson Gray wrote:
> >>> It means "To runners who are shod, ... " = "To runners who have shoes
> >>> on, ... " right? What's wrong with that? That's *nothing* like
> >>>
> >>> "As he quietly and carefully _trodded_ the almost-unseen trail, he was
> >>> alert to the possibility of booby-traps."
> >>>
> >>
> >> I agree that Alison's example involves a participial adjective
> >> modifying "runners", and that "to shod" is not a constituent there.
> >> But it's not hard to google up examples where it is:
> >
> > oops.  I meant to include some "to shod" examples verifying this claim.
> >
> > How much does it cost to shod a horse?
>
> [etc.]
>
> For what it's worth, I became aware some years ago that I
> internally thought of the verb _trod_ as being present tense;
> that is, although I don't think I ever said it aloud, I'd
> always think of statements like "I'm going to trod on that
> can."
>
> I don't know why my mind did this.
>
> Jesse Sheidlower
> OED
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