Timeline for "sunk" or "sunken"?
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| Aug 11, 2013 at 17:59 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | There are three strong -ink verbs in English: drink, sink, shrink. In modern use, the -unken forms for these tend only to be used as adjectives, not as verbal past participles. So we still sometimes have drunken men even though we would never now say that they *had drunken. Similarly for sunken ships and shrunken heads. | |
| Aug 11, 2013 at 17:50 | history | answered | Barrie England | CC BY-SA 3.0 |