Talk:-ed
Latest comment: 2 years ago by Backinstadiums in topic honied
past tenses[edit]
The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language, page 88, reads
if took could be the realisation of either a preterite or an irrealis, there'd be no way of telling in cases like [29ii] (If he took the later plane tonight he wouldn’t have to rush) whether it corresponded to was or to were.
What would the -ed form in bold be called in such an example? --Backinstadiums (talk) 16:20, 6 October 2019 (UTC)
/-ɛd/[edit]
According to the Longman English Pronunciation Dictionary,
In singing, exceptionally, a strong-vowelled variant /-ɛd/ is usual.
A ‘syllabic’ pronunciation of the ending formerly applied to all -ed formations, and is still heard when people recite older literature, where it may be required for scansion purposes: thus (only in imitated old pronunciation) seemed ˈsiːmɪd. Certain adjectives have 'ɪd, əd', as wicked, and the same applies also to most words in -edly, -edness.
--Backinstadiums (talk) 16:39, 8 February 2020 (UTC)
How better to account for honied ? --Backinstadiums (talk) 17:33, 6 August 2021 (UTC)