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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 19 hours ago

'Read' and its past tense are spelled the same. How should they be spelled?

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'Read' and its past tense are spelled the same. How should they be spelled?

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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 19 hours ago

What about similar oddities in English?
(This question is inspired by this comic by https://www.exocomics.com/193/ (link found by [email protected])) Edit: it’s to its in the title. Damn autocorrect.

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Present: read

Past: red (in the fediverse), redd (on the old site)

Obvious.
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  “It has been red”.
  
  So was the text red or has the text been read?
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    Both. How do you know it was red when you have not red it? Someone must have red it to state it’s red.
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      I can’t reed

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