RE: [Aus-soaring] Gliding in the USA

[McDonnell, Christopher (DAIS)]

Not to mention Xxxxxxboro in place names. Nite has fallen on the language thru the North American use of it. :-) -----Original Message----- From: Derek Ruddock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 2 September 2004 4:03 PM To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia. Subject: RE: [Aus-soaring] Gliding in the USA Unless of course your English split from the mother tongue along with the Mayflower, leading to archaic Americanism's such as gotten and glid        -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Brian Wade Sent: Thursday, 02 September 2004 12:01 PM To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia. Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Gliding in the USA   >what is the past tense of glide?)   Seems that "glided" is correct - some "Google answers" are:   Phonologically similar to the stems of irregular verbs (e.g. glide-glided; cf. ride-rode, hide-hid). Unlike ''consistent regulars'', whose stems are phonologically dissimilar to the stems of regular verbs, inconsistent regular verbs are predicted by a dual-system view to be memorised; if they were not, people would utter forms like glid or glode, which does not appear to occur.   An example of a strong verb that has been converted into a weak verb is 'to glide', whose past form used to be 'glad'. ****************** Past participle is the third principal part of an English verb. In weak verbs, the pattern is glide, glided, glided; in strong verbs the pattern varies in form: it can be unchanging, as in set, set, set; it can change vowels for past tense and past participle, as in swim, swam, swum; it can change vowels and add a final -n or -en for the past participle, as in fly, flew, flown and drive, drove, driven; or it can have various combinations of these three general patterns. The forms of strong verb past participles are often in divided usage (show, showed, showed or shown; prove, proved, proved or proven -- Brian Wade Personal Computer Concepts Control SPAM with MailWasher Pro Uniform Time http://www.uniformtime.com.au PO Box 114 INDOOROOPILLY QLD 4068 Ph: 07 3371 2944 Fax: 07 3870 4103 ----- Original Message ----- From: Kittel, Stephen W (ETSA) To: 'Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia.' Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 10:02 AM Subject: RE: [Aus-soaring] Gliding in the USA   > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I have glided (what is the past tense of glide?) Vol planed. :-) Regards SWK ********************************************************************** This email and any file attachments are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed.  If you have received this email in error please tell us immediately by return email and delete the document. The information in this email expresses the opinion of the author and does not necessarily represent the views of ETSA Utilities. ********************************************************************** _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This communication, including any attachments, is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you should not read it - please contact me immediately, destroy it, and do not copy or use any part of this communication or disclose anything about it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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