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> I've never heard the word 'chidden'.
I presume that it is quite archaic or regional dialect
actually, the *really archaic form is 'chode'. <g>
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>>actually, the *really archaic form is 'chode'. <g><<
(grinning mischievously) So how would you treat "hide", = "hode"?
Seriously though, GuruNet seems to accept chidden, as does M-W.
Thinks - "ride" becomes "rode" and "ridden", but the two would appear to have different meanings.
Any comments, tsuwm?
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> Thinks - "ride" becomes "rode" and "ridden", but the two would appear to have different meanings. I don't think so. They just appear to be the same word used in different tenses. e.g. I rode my horse. I have often ridden my horse. Of course, you could use the jocular and say 'we're glad we've got ridden of him'  Rubrick
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> (grinning mischievously) So how would you treat "hide", = "hode"? The famous writer of Jeeves and Wooster, P.G. Wodehouse would have to have his name revised to P.G. Widehouse, presumably?
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>ride, rode, ridden
verb, past tense, past participle
bide, bode, bidden[obs]
stride, strode, stridden
slide, slid, slidden
hide, hid, hidden
go figure...
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I'm not so sure that bidden is obs. but I've never heard of slidden or stridden.
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I have seen stridden, as in 'he had stridden past the
crypt when...'.
Checked gurunet for slidden: listed as archaic.
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With the current Foot and Mouth ..er.. crisis (nearly said epidemic and couldn't remember the "correct" term  and the inability to dispose of the piles of dead animals, we currently have "Cowscaping" and "Sheepscaping" in UK. We don't have that many goats to need scaping. Apologies for the sick humour, Rod
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Tell me if I'm wrong, Rod.
Several years ago there was an outbreak of mad cow in the UK. The EU forbade exports to the continent, and the herd was to be destroyed. A suggestion came in from a Cambodian (it may have been as a letter to the NYTimes) that the herd be shipped to Cambodia, instead, to be set loose to wander the mine fields.
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Juanmaria and Rubrick... and Jackie for this : thanks to all for allowing this computer-illiterate mom to participate without getting completely overwhelmed by jargon
Yes, Jackie YES! I hasten to add that those who are Computer Gurus have been most generous in sharing their expertise and -- more importantly -- have sent instructions that are lucid and thereby easy to follow.
Many thanks to all of you -- you know who you are!
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