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'Read' and its past tense are spelled the same. How should they be spelled? (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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What about similar oddities in English?
(This question is inspired by this comic by https://www.exocomics.com/193/ (link found by BunScientist@lemmy.zip)) Edit: it's to its in the title. Damn autocorrect.

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[–] 29 points 10 months ago* (3 children)

Bought, caught, taught, fought, thought, sought, and wrought are all past tense verbs and all rhyme. The present tense forms are buy, catch, teach, fight, think, seek, and work, none of which rhyme.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Spanish is awesome. All its verbs in their regular form do end in "-ar", "-er" and "-ir".

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    The conjugations can get as weird as English sometimes, though. Case in point: Ser.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago*

    "Me voy a ir yendo" can translate into "I'm leaving", but it is funny because you are using three times, in spanish, the same verb.

    Edit: I play with it and as a prank sometimes I translate it like if it were a chain of "going to". "I'm going to going to to"

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    And that's one of the sounds "ou" can make.

    • there's "ou" as in bought
    • there's "ou" as in house
    • there's "ou" as in touch
    • there's "ou" as in group
    • there's "ou" as in boulder
    • there's "ou" as in famous
    • there's "ou" as in tour

    Inglish speling iz stoopid.

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