"Shaven"

[Paul Johnston]

Around my first wife's household (she's also a linguist), we used to make "to pig out" a Class 3 strong verb:

We really pag out yesterday.
We've puggen out a bunch of times this month.

And of course, there's always this Class Ib one:
"The cat shat on the mat, but the kitten has shitten in the mitten."

Paul Johnston
On Jun 26, 2012, at 12:28 AM, W Brewer wrote:

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> I tweet ~ you twit ~ she twats
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> George Thompson hath ywritten: <<< a society for the defense of strong
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> verbs... the verb <I tweet> should have for its past tense <I twat>.>>>
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> WB: Society for the Protection & Propagation of Endangered Paradigms, Verb
> Fortition ad hoc Subcommittee. <<When in trouble, when in doubt, shout a
> strong verb, scream ablaut!>> First principles: (1) provide strong
> sanctuary for weak French defectors: proven (inducing move ~ moven); arrive
> ~ arrove ~ arriven (cf. dive ~ dove ~ diven); (2) send advocates of
> _hanged_ to the gallows; usw.
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