Spit, spat, spitten

[Lynne Murphy]

--On Wednesday, January 31, 2001 4:21 pm -0500 Beverly Flanigan
<flanigan at OAK.CATS.OHIOU.EDU> wrote:

> OK, at the risk of soiling my pristine reputation, I'm going to ask if the
> first paradigm above also works for the verb "shit":  Does anyone use
> "shat" for p.t. and p.p.?  (Horrors, did I really write that??)  My
> dictionary doesn't even include the base word!

I'd say 'shit, shat, has shit'.  'Has shat' sounds totally bizarre to me.
(And 'shat' is a legal scrabble word--for tournament play, at least.)

Lynne

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