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Thread #77217   Message #1375186
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
09-Jan-05 - 02:22 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: June Tabor's Waly Waly
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: June Tabor's Waly Waly
Although an old form 'bad' is preserved in the OED, it is not used in North America, and is 'bade' in Merriam Webster's. BADE is both past tense and past participle.

I think it survives in UK only in dialect, but I may be wrong.