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“Awoken” vs. “awaked”
I understand that the verb awake has two different past participle forms, awoken and awaked. Checking Google Ngram I saw that the former has become more popular than the latter in the last century. I ...
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Was “book” to “beek” as “foot” is to “feet”?
"Foot" is a curious word in English because it is pluralized in an unusual way; the "oo" in the word is changed to "ee". Did this once use to be a standard way of pluralizing things in English (or a ...
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Why do some “ing” verbs change tense to “ung” while others go to “inged?” [duplicate]
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Origin of different past tenses for verbs with the same endings?
Spring has sprung, the bell we had to ring was rung, the sting was stung but when I had to ping a ...
