Words I Hate
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Because it used to be a language of conquest, they conquered a lot of foreign words from different languages plus some wordforms from the languages of their own conquerors like Italy/Rome and France and added them in.
Some people include fed and bled in the group. It's read which seems like the outlier past tense. There isn't a lot of consistency in making the past tense of lead lead if read is the only other verb which follows that pattern.
Some people include fed and bled in the group. It's read which seems like the outlier past tense. There isn't a lot of consistency in making the past tense of lead lead if read is the only other verb which follows that pattern.
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"Diffuse" like a surprisingly weak word choice for clickbait, considering you've prevented a large and powerful wild animal from maiming people.
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I'm sure pled is used in the UK but that might be just informally in non-legal contexts.
I can't quite answer this fully but kneel follows the same spelling pattern as feel, deal and sleep, amongst others; the long E sound in certain English verbs undergoes an umlaut shift in the past tense. English doesn't have umlaut marks (unlike other Germanic languages) but the spelling and sounds are still changed.
Sure, many verbs with similar sounds don't follow this pattern and I would hypothesise that they are verbs that appeared later where the need to create an irregular past tense form felt (huh) weird and unnecessary. It's annoying, yes, it's irregular, sure, but it isn't quite as random as it seems. I haven't done the legwork on cognates in other related languages but irregular spelling patterns do exist in them and they're surprisingly consistent.
