"babysit" zero preterite

[Neal Whitman]

I only heard it from this one speaker. Everyone else I've heard says "babysat".

Neal

On Jun 25, 2012, at 5:21 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:

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> On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 2:31 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
>> babysat
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> So, the claim is that _babysat_ is *not* - or is no longer - the
> standard Past of _babysit_? Clearly, I've been alive much too long. I
> didn't need to live long enough to see this happen.
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