Mencken, H.L. 1921. The American Language

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H.L. Mencken (1880–1956). The American Language. 1921.

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Dive	dove 34	dived
Do	done	done (or did)
Drag	drug	dragged
Draw	drawed	drawed (or drew)
Dream	drempt	drempt
Drink	drank (or drunk)	drank
Drive	drove	drove
Drown	drownded	drownded
Eat	et (or eat)	ate (or et)
Fall	fell (or fallen)	fell
Feed	fed	fed
Feel	felt	felt
Fetch	fetched 35	fetch
Fight	fought 36	fought
Find	found	found
Fine	found	found
Fling	flang	flung
Flow	flew	flowed
Fly	flew	flew
Forget	forgot (or forgotten)	forgotten
Forsake	forsaken	forsook
Freeze	frozen (or froze) 37	frozen
Get	got (or gotten)	gotten
Give	give	give
Glide	glode 38	glode
Go	went	went
Grow	growed	growed
Hang	hung 39	hung
Have	had	had (or hadden)
Hear	heerd	heerd (or heern)
Heat	het 40	het
Heave	hove	hove
Hide	hidden	hid
H’ist 41	h’isted	h’isted
Hit	hit	hit

Note 34. Dove seems to be making its way into standard American. I constantly encounter it in manuscripts. It is used by Amy Lowell in Legends; Boston, 1921, p. 4. [back]

Note 35. Fotch is also heard, but it is not general. [back]

Note 36. Fit and fitten, unless my observation errs, are heard only in dialect. Fit is archaic English. Cf. Thornton, vol. i, p. 322. [back]

Note 37. Friz is used only humorously. [back]

Note 38. Glode once enjoyed a certain respectability in America. It occurs in the Knickerbocker Magazine for April, 1856. [back]

Note 39. Hanged is never heard. [back]

Note 40. Het is incomplete without the addition of up. “He was het up” is always heard, not “he was het.” [back]

Note 41. Always so pronounced. [back]

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