Have thought of another burning question: are there any other words that end in -ed, as "naked" does, that are not past tenses of verbs? I can't think of any. Words, that is, that make no sense if you take the "d" or "ed" off the end. You can slake your thirst, and then it is slaked; you can bake your pie, and then it is a baked good. You can spurn your lover, and then he or she is spurned. But "naked" don't work that way; you cannot "nake" (much though you might try!). Are there any other words like it? ending in an -ed that, if removed, creates a non-word?

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Lots of single syllable ones...

As for others...

kindred?

Ah, excellent. I was beginning to think there weren't any....Hadn't even considered single-syllable ones, I guess because I was thinking in terms of the syllable that remains once the -d or -ed is gone from "naked." Didn't occur to me to consider something like "bed." B. !!

But there must be more than "kindred" of the longer variety?

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How about acned (anyone know what that means?), weed, airspeed, bleed, coed, creed, screed
and sled?

Not to mention my name, which really is reed.

hundred bed fed


sged deleted

reed, welcome to AWADtalk! and thank you for the long list - I knew it couldn't be right that "naked" and "kindred" were the only two long-ish ones....but I just couldn't think of more. Silly me.

Bill, what is sged?

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abed shed red

Proper nouns--Ted, Fred, Ned, Jed, and Ed

[I've forgotten what everybody else has already listed, so forgive any repetition here.]

If you take away the "ed" from "Ed," does he become the Invisible Man?!

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