Re:“On Accident” or “By Accident”?
by madaxe_again on Thursday September 24, 2015 @08:55AM
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No, but we have a similar one - lend and borrow have become interchangeable. "Can you borrow me an X" or "I lended (not even word AFAIK) it from him" is one I hear often from younger folks.
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When they grow up, if enough of them still say "lended", it will be put into the dictionary.
Re:“On Accident” or “By Accident”?
by JoeAltmaier on Thursday September 24, 2015 @09:52AM
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That one I understand. It was an exception anyway; lended is more straightforward. Like 'builded' vs 'built'. The sign on our old 1800-era edifice says "Builded 1838" so I guess they used to use that (or at least write it that way)
Re:“On Accident” or “By Accident”?
by madaxe_again on Thursday September 24, 2015 @10:05AM
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Indeed. Language evolves, or we'd all be speaking PIE. Just sounds funny to my fossilised ear.
Lended is also an Americanism.
Idiocracy.
Re:“On Accident” or “By Accident”?
by almightysmudge on Thursday September 24, 2015 @09:51AM
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I've heard "lent" but never "lended".
"I lent a pen off him", "he lent me a pen". Could be a Northern thing though.
Re:“On Accident” or “By Accident”?
by almightysmudge on Thursday September 24, 2015 @04:41PM
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Turns out "lent" is actually the past tense of "lend". Not sure where my head was this afternoon.
Re:“On Accident” or “By Accident”?
by neverknowsbest on Friday September 25, 2015 @12:07PM
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'lended + from' is new to me, only heard 'lended + to' in the past...
One I noticed in popular use a few years ago (Canada): the word "itch" as a verb, i.e.: "I itched it" "he was itching himself"
Sounds odd to me.