"picked and choosed"

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Wed Oct 8 20:42:36 UTC 2008


from Mike Francesa on WFAN (sports talk radio):

"We've just picked and choosed."

Although I can't prove it by google, my suspicion is that the
morphophonological assimilation here makes "choosed" more likely (for
at least some speakers) than in the corresponding non-primed context,
e.g.

"I've just {chosen/%choosed}"

Similarly for the preterit:

I {chose/%choosed} what I wanted.
I {picked and chose/picked and choosed} what I wanted.

LH

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