Nobel Prize for Archaeological Grammar

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

On Aug 21, 2007, at 2:36 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:

> On 8/21/07, Arnold M. Zwicky <zwicky at csli.stanford.edu> wrote:
>>
>> ... standard continues older irregular variant, non-standard has
>> regularized (standard "sought", non-standard "seeked")
>
> OMG! TMI, arnold! When I heard "seeked" for the first time, yesterday,
> I actually thought that it was a hapax that not even the speaker would
> ever use again. Well, cut my legs and call me "Shorty"!

do a search on "seeked".  lotsa stuff, including a "seeked banned"
'sought to be banned'!

arnold

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