Timeline for How common is pronouncing the past tense of beat as /bet/?
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| Nov 25, 2015 at 9:52 | comment | added | herisson | Is it the same for the present and past tense, or different? If it's different, then it wouldn't just be the result of drawling a vowel, since it actually makes a grammatical difference which way you say it. As the original poster mentions, it might have happened by analogy to other words with vowel changes between the past and present. | |
| Jun 25, 2014 at 14:59 | history | answered | FeliniusRex - gone | CC BY-SA 3.0 |