to myself (TAB...not ENTER, you dummy)! Sorry about that vacant post up there. I was about to offer "plead/pled" which seems to be morphing to pleaded. To me that seems to be the wrong direction!? As I have been told by those in the know, in Middle English words such as "knight" each letter was pronounced. "Knight" was "k'nict" whereas just plain old night was "nicht" not far off the German pronunciation. A "knife" was "k'niffee" and a "wife" was a "Wiffee". And Old English is pretty much unrecognizable to the uninitiated.
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