[Ads-l] Heard: _woke_ vs. woken_

[Wilson Gray]

In a TV commercial, the speakers are just a couple of random, white guys:

A. Maybe the neighbors *need* to be _woke_!

B. It's actually "_woken_."


Maybe the  neighbors *need* to be woken!"

Is that proper English? Is there any prescriptive consensus on what the
non-Present-tense principle parts of _wake, wake up, waken, awake, awaken_
et sim. ought to be? Does anyone care?

-- 
-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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