Soaken

[Benjamin Barrett]

Soaking wet does occur -ing can be reduced to -en in my dialect, but I think soaken also occurs. When I heard it today, it seemed there was no reason for such a reduction. You make a good point, though, so I would like to reduce my assertion to a mild proposal. BB

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> On 5 Mar 2014, at 20:56, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> How do you differentiate between "soaken wet" and "soaking wet" with an
> elided 'g'?
>> On Mar 5, 2014 11:45 PM, "Benjamin Barrett" <gogaku at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
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>> Wiktionary gives "soaken" (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/soaken) as an
>> obsolete adjective, yet it's very much alive here in Seattle. I heard it
>> today. Until now, I had parsed it as "soaked" but realized today it is
>> different. I think it's most common as a collocation: "soaken wet."
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>> The last citation for "soaken" in the OED is 1898. It strikes me as
>> colloquial or dialectical, though it's not labelled.
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>> Benjamin Barrett
>> Formerly of Seattle, WA
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