"Shaven"

[Douglas G. Wilson]

On 6/25/2012 12:52 AM, Wilson Gray wrote:
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> 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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"Shaven head" seems natural to me, "shaved head" also natural. I'm not
sure which I would more often say.

Always "clean-shaven" though, I think.

-- Doug Wilson

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