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GUEST,Slag BS: English grammar question (351* d) RE: BS: English grammar question 16 Feb 09

The American Heritage Dictionary, 3rd edition, cw 1992, has "pled v. A past tense and a past participle of plead." Under the verb proper it is listed as a second choice and "pleaded" as first. Not wrong but definitely on its way out.

I don't know if it has been retained in subsequent editions but the AHD has an excellent brief history of the development of the Indo-European languages and an apparatus which appends to many entries showing the development of word groups based on the proto-language. It also mentions the Brown Corpus which is a statistical analysis of English language speech patterns of usage. If you Google "The Brown Corpus tag-set" you will get an idea of their strategy in doing this much heralded analysis.

ps. When is the last time you saw the word "flivver" in print? 23 skiddoo!

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