On Wednesday, Sep 3, 2003, at 15:52 US/Eastern, Linda Kukolich wrote:
Mind you, I can't think what other irregular verb the American past tense of dive is trying to copy.
Drive, shrive, strive? But there's still room for "improvement" in arrive, derive and deprive... :)
----- Tamara P Duvall
And there you have a neat dividing line between the verbs of Anglo-Saxon origin and those of Latinate/Norman French origin... only the Anglo-Saxon ones morph the vowel like that!
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