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present/past tenses for verbs ending in "-ead'
paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Started conversation Oct 1, 2020
My great uncle used to say "English is a funny language." No one disagreed with him.
Here are some verbs that, in their present tense, end in '-ead":
bead
head
knead
plead
lead
read
For the fist four, you form the pats tense by adding "-ed."
(beaded, headed, kneaded, and pleaded, though for pleaded "pled" is also allowed)
For "lead," you get "led" in the past tense.
For "read, you get "read" in the past tense.
I believe that etymology is the term for the study of the way these forms have come to us.
Would anyone like to comment?
present/past tenses for verbs ending in "-ead'
Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~ Posted Oct 1, 2020
No
present/past tenses for verbs ending in "-ead'
Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~ Posted Oct 1, 2020
Seriously though, English is not the only funny language 
present/past tenses for verbs ending in "-ead'
Icy North Posted Oct 4, 2020
You have to disengage the spelling sometimes -this has changed over the years, where the sound has been more constant.
I’d have thought it was early man who invented the -ed ending. It was probably a grunt indicating that this was something he’s already done rather than something he was about to do.
The more common ones got contracted into the strong forms which remain today.
Or something.
present/past tenses for verbs ending in "-ead'
paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Oct 4, 2020
I wasn't aware of yead at all. Tead could be a noun or an adjective, but I was talking about verbs.
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