a little more haplology

[Linda Cumberland]

I guess we've pretty well exhausted the “lightning” discussion,
but I came across this in Pinker’s 1999 “Words and Rules” (p.15)
and thought I’d pass it on:

“Children often make up words or mangle them and are happy to put
their new verbs in the past tense.  Here are some examples:

	spidered
[-->]	lightninged
	smunched
	poonked
	speeched
	broomed
	byed (went by)
	eat lunched
	cut-upped egg”

Pinker (that is, the study he cites) might consider it "mangled", but
spell-checker does not detect “lightninged” as an error (nor
“broomed” nor "cut-upped" either, for that matter).

Linda