beginned
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Verb[edit]
beginned
- (nonstandard) simple past and past participle of begin
- 1960, Malcolm [Vivian] Hay, “The End of the Story”, in Prince in Captivity: Based on the Memoirs and Unpublished Letters of Antoine Philippe d’Orléans, Duc de Montpensier, 1775-1807, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, →OCLC, page 234:
- This morning I have beginned a remedy which has been strongly recommended to me, and which they say will certainly cure my cough (God grant) that is Ass’s Milk.
- 1973, Austin Clarke, “Bonanza 1972 in Toronto”, in Martha Saxton, editor, Works in Progress: Selections from the Best in Books to Be Published in Coming Months, number 8, New York, N.Y.: The Literary Guild of America, Inc., →LCCN, page 462:
- And in the midst o’ my eating and drinking, ’cause last night I was right there with them, I was one of the tourisses too, like the best o’ them! in the midst o’ my eating a flying fish steak, I had was to wonder, ‘How many o’ we back home have a piece o’ this nice fish in their mouth, this morning?’ But the story running-’way from me. I beginned by telling you how I got there.
- 2012, Charlotte Vale-Allen, chapter 1, in Where is the Baby?, Sutton, Surrey: Severn House Publishers Ltd, →ISBN, page 8:
- Toadman puts a pill in my mouth and makes me eat it if they’re goin’ somewhere and they’re gonna leave me. Tastes bad. I don’t like it, so I started spitting them out. I can’t amember how long since I beginned to spit them out.