[Ads-l] _cowed_ > "cowered"

[Laurence Horn]

> On Feb 25, 2018, at 5:08 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> Narrator of Spree Killer:
> 
> "Their refusal to be _cowered_ stands strong.”

Wonder if there’s a bit of “cowered”/“coward” influence at play as well.  But likely it’s mainly a problem the somewhat moribund and perhaps confusing verb “to cow”.

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