dropping -ed in adjectives

[Amy West]

On 5/17/12 12:00 AM, Automatic digest processor wrote:
> Date:    Wed, 16 May 2012 14:42:03 -0700
> From:    Arnold Zwicky<zwicky at STANFORD.EDU>
> Subject: Re: dropping -ed in adjectives
>
> On May 16, 2012, at 2:35 PM, i wrote:
>
>>> >>  t/d-deletion specifically zapping the PSP suffix has come up here before, including in the prejudice/bias case -- last time in April 2008.  at the time, i said i was preparing a LLog posting on the topic, but i seem not to have finished it.  alas.
> as i noted back in 2008, Brians's Common Errors has both "bias" for "biased" and "prejudice" for "prejudiced".
>
> arnold
I checked the slim usage section in Hacker (the manual the students use)
and MWDEU and didn't spot anything about it in either before posting.

So, it's still in "error" category and not "dialectal variant"?

---Amy West

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