From a post to Macworld
W Brewer
brewerwa at GMAIL.COM
Wed Jul 25 04:06:37 UTC 2012
Wilson Gray : <<<_feat_ for _feet_>>>
WB: My pettiest peeve is reading preterite *LEAD* (meaning 'led'). {READ :
READ (not *RED)} ==> {LEAD : LED} > {LEAD : *LEAD*}. Simple
proportional analogy reinforced by phonetic association with LEAD [ lEd ]
(metal). Multiple causation, as Prof Malkiel would have said.
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