Originally Posted By: SweetLoretta
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.