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New verbs entering the English language, by whatever route, are almost always weak/regular
What he said. The only exceptions to this are a few facetiously pedantic coined plurals, e.g., Vax, Vaxen, Unix, Unices, folk, filk, etc.
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New verbs entering the English language, by whatever route, are almost always weak/regular
What he said. The only exceptions to this are a few facetiously pedantic coined plurals, e.g., Vax, Vaxen, Unix, Unices, folk, filk, etc. "new verbs" ??
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"new verbs" ??
Sorry, I was thinking more along the lines of my answer above, generically covering all kinds of zero morphology in English: e.g., verbed nouns (or denominal verbs), nouned verbs (or deverbal nouns), nouned adjectives (deadjectival nouns). Examples of retroactively irregularized verbs might be dove for dived,
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>we don't have enough words that have xd in them. well, there's taxdeferred and ex-dividend just for starters.  yep, there is. smarty.
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AS in: "I texd my messages on my cell".
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I have a question concerning the past tense of text (as in text messaging). Text used to be a noun, but now it seems to be gaining currency as a verb It's been a verb since 1599: NASHE Lenten Stuffe (1871) 15 A chronographical Latin table..in a fair text hand, texting unto us, how, in the sceptredom of Edward the Confessor, the sands first began to grow into sight at low water. SHAKES. Much Ado V. i. 185 Yea and text vnder-neath, heere dwells Benedicke the married man. DEKKER Wh. of Babylon Wks. 1873 II. 265 Vowes haue I writ so deepe,..So texted them in characters capitall, I cannot race them.
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[So texted them in characters capitall, I cannot race them.
And looky there; a past tense. (emphasis mine)
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[So texted them in characters capitall, I cannot race them.
And looky there; a past tense. (emphasis mine) I never said it wasn't legit, just didn't like the sound of it.
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[So texted them in characters capitall, I cannot race them.
And looky there; a past tense. (emphasis mine) I never said it wasn't legit, just didn't like the sound of it. And I never said you said it wasn't legit. I was responding to SweetLoretta
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It's been a verb since 1599:
NASHE Lenten Stuffe (1871) 15 A chronographical Latin table..in a fair text hand, texting unto us, how, in the sceptredom of Edward the Confessor, the sands first began to grow into sight at low water.
SHAKES. Much Ado V. i. 185 Yea and text vnder-neath, heere dwells Benedicke the married man.
DEKKER Wh. of Babylon Wks. 1873 II. 265 Vowes haue I writ so deepe,..So texted them in characters capitall, I cannot race them.
If this etymology is correct, then eta's suggestion gains currency - it would seem as though the original verb is tex (or tech?) and text is just another way of spelling texed ("yea and text underneath" = texed underneath). So maybe we should change the verb to tex, past participle texed (or texd or text). I tex. I will tex. I have text.
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