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Jess and I have had a couple of conversations lately about the past tense of certain words. For instance - SWEAT. Is it just sweat or sweated. I think it's sweat. Swat is incorrect, but it's funny. My mom was a school teacher. She has taken on the role of "parent" with Gabby's homework on the evenings that I have class. Last night they were doing some homework, and my mom came across the word "petted". She said she became very upset and almost wrote the teacher a note saying that she didn't know where the hell she got that word, but it is incorrect, and she should learn to speak the English language before she became a 1st grade teacher. But...then mom decided that maybe she should look it up in the dictionary first...sure enough! The past tense of "PET" is petted, not just plain pet...like, "I pet my dog last night." Who knew? I thought it was just plain pet too, like sweat, and like "hurt". I can't stand to hear people say "hurted".

I had my first two classes yesterday: Spatial Analysis and Geography of Europe. I don't want to talk about it. Tonight - Deviance and Difference. And tomorrow night (after those first two classes, again) Urban Geography.


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Jessiedc28 said…
Well everyone knows that the past tense of shit is shat -- at least THAT makes me feel better. What about lighted. Isn't lighted a word?
1:25 PM
Compulsive Lizzie said…
I think "SHAT" is Irish...not past tense...
7:37 AM
Compulsive Lizzie said…
So, then, if we're switching to Irish..."ARSE" is my favorite.
7:38 AM
Jammie J. said…
I only require people to speak proper English if they're going to take cuts in front of me and then steal my parking spot. (A post office drama just before Christmas). Then she had the NERVE to criticize ME because "You no drive rawt. You to pull fawwawd and pawk."

But, then, I don't have kids yet.
6:34 PM
Compulsive Lizzie said…
When I was little my mom used to yell at me for saying "brang" instead of "brought". And then yesterday I was shopping with a friend I said, "They ain't got no more of those." OMG! My mom would have killed me. I try not to sound too Texas most of the time, but it sneaks up.

Jess - I think past tense of "lighted" is "LIT".
8:33 AM
Compulsive Lizzie said…
NicHole - That is very crazy stuff!!! I checked out your profile, too, and we have lots in common, that's so weird. You're right, no one knows the movie Stealing Beauty...or even the Outlander series, except my sister. Cool! Glad you got here!
8:55 AM
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