[Ads-l] pet, pet, pet

[Neal Whitman]

Thanks, Ben. I expanded on the topic a bit further a few years later in 
this Grammar Girl script:

http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/%E2%80%9Cpet%E2%80%9D-or-%E2%80%9Cpetted%E2%80%9D-%E2%80%9Cgrit%E2%80%9D-or-%E2%80%9Cgritted%E2%80%9D

The link's ugly, but it works.

Neal


On 5/31/2016 12:08 PM, Ben Zimmer wrote:
> On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 10:42 AM, Charles C Doyle wrote:
>
>> I just saw a cute-pet posting on FaceBook, bearing the caption "Puppy
>> Doesn't Want To Stop Being Pet."  You know, "pet," the participial form of
>> "pet."  Or maybe of "pat"?
>>
> Here's a relevant post by Neal Whitman from 2006, quoting ADS-L discussion
> from 2003:
>
> https://literalminded.wordpress.com/2006/08/25/the-irregularization-of-pet/
>
> --bgz
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
>

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org