[Magdalen] A brighter note?

[Scott Knitter]

lend lent lent

....seems to be replaced by loan loaned loaned. Nobody lends money anymore;
they loan it. Ugh.

A work colleague years ago asked some of us if we'd like to go out to eat
and fellowship (verb). I was confused. I thought "fellowship" was a fancy
way of saying chat, but apparently it's to talk about faith. Just a new
usage for me. I don't think we ever did it. Other colleagues probably
looked blank about it as I did.

On Tue, Jun 8, 2021 at 1:03 PM ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:

> A friend who teaches linguistics claims the strong verbs have been
> disappearing from the English language, especially in the United States,
> for many decades.
>
> Give gave given
> is much more difficult to learn and remember than
> gift gifted gifted.
>
> The one that surprises me is shine.
> I learned
> shine shone shone
> but I often hear news broadcasters say shined.
> -M, nuzzling her KJV with deep affection
>
>
> On Tuesday, June 8, 2021, Christopher Hart <cervus51 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Gift, as a transitive verb, is in my 1974 edition of the Concise Oxford
> > Dictionary. I occasionally find its usage awkward, but not incorrect.
> >
> >
>


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Scott R. Knitter
Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA