wasteses

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

On Sep 24, 2008, at 5:55 PM, Mark Mandel wrote:

> Yes, but my point is that it's the same process.
>
> m a m
>
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 5:40 PM, Arnold M. Zwicky
> <zwicky at csli.stanford.edu>wrote:
>
>> On Sep 24, 2008, at 12:20 PM, Mark Mandel wrote:
>>
>>> Or, non-jocularly, "drownded".
>>
>> "dround" or "drownd" as a variant of "droun" or "drown" goes way
>> back,
>> though at some point it became stigmatized.

well, as i recall the literature on the matter, it's *not* the same
process, but rather a phonological extension of final -n, which
probably had nothing to do with the past tense forms.

arnold

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