dropping -ed in adjectives

[Amy West]

On 5/17/12 12:00 AM, Automatic digest processor wrote:
> Date:    Wed, 16 May 2012 14:49:59 -0400
> From:    Paul Johnston<paul.johnston at WMICH.EDU>
> Subject: Re: dropping -ed in adjectives
>
> My students, whether hip hop or country fans or not, from Michigan, do this all the time.
>
> Paul Johnston
So, what do you think is going on? Just not hearing the unstressed
ending? Not seeing it in the written form? Is it an error? Is it a
dialectal variant?

(And does it drive you as nuts as it's driving me?)

---Amy West

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