"Shaven"

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Mon Jun 25 04:52:33 UTC 2012


Is it dead?! I was describing to my wife a man who had a "shaven" head
and she corrected the adjective to "shaved," automatically! WTF?! Has
"shaven" gone the way of "proven"?!

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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