there seems to be a debate over the past tense.
Lori
New vebs entering the English language, by whatever route, are almost always weak/regular, i.e., forming the past tense by adding
-ed. Even new verbs that are identical to irregular verbs in their present and infinitival uses will be regular if they are formed from some other part of speech. E.g., the baseball term
fly out, which is
flied out in the past tense because the
fly is from the
fly of
fly ball. Even a verb like
input, which is from the noun, is often seen as
inputted in the past tense.
