" to shod " !!

[Geoff Nathan]

Sorry Alison, it's been common usage for a rather long time.  OED cites these, for example:

1382 WYCLIF Isa. xi. 15 So that thei passe thur{ygh} hym shod men [1388 schood men].
c1384 CHAUCER H. Fame I. 98 Dreme he barefote, dreme he shod [Caxton, Thynne shood].
c1400 Rom. Rose 7463 And alle freres, shodde and bare.
c1440 Promp. Parv. 447/2 Schod, as men, calceatus. Schod, as hors, ferratus.
1537 in Brand Hist. Newcastle (1789) I. 129 note, The Blake-Friers otherwise called the Shode Freers.
1782 COWPER Gilpin 82 But, finding soon a smoother road Beneath his well-shod feet.
1840 DICKENS Old C. Shop v, A pair of very imperfectly shod feet. 1888 ‘J. S. WINTER’ Bootle's Childr. i, Neatly shod feet.

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----- "Alison Murie" <sagehen7470 at ATT.NET> wrote:

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>  From an NYT article  in the Health section:
> "To shod runners, the idea of running without a shoe sounds
> impossible."
> This one makes me grit my teeth, but probably someone will find that
> it has become a common usage.
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