"babysit" zero preterite

[Wilson Gray]

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 6:24 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
> I think "babysat" is still much more frequent than "babysit" [past] and "babysitted" combined.

I take your word fir it that "babysit" and :babysitted" even exist!;-)
I can recall when _snuck_ was regarded as merely a joke and even
bluesmen with sharecropping for day jobs used only _sneaked_ in their
back-door-man songs.

Things change,

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