Re: (atbash) -- (Wizard --> draziW) (Girt --> triG) -- (Like Palindromes)

From	Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org>
Newsgroups	sci.lang, rec.puzzles, alt.usage.english
Subject	Re: (atbash) -- (Wizard --> draziW) (Girt --> triG) -- (Like Palindromes)
Date	2026-06-01 10:07 +1000
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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On 31/05/26 23:49, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> On 2026-05-31, Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org> wrote:
>
>> Girt is simply the past participle of the verb gird. As verbs weaken it
>> is probably being gradually replaced by "girded", but "girt" continues
>> to survive as the passive participle.
>
> You mean "become regular".  Gird/girt/girt is already a weak verb.
> Along with bend/bent/bent and a few others it belongs to a group
> that have coalesced the stem final dental and the past suffix.

Thanks for the reminder. Such details are easy to forget.

-- 
Peter Moylan       peter@pmoylan.org    http://www.pmoylan.org
Newcastle, NSW

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(atbash) --   (Wizard  -->   draziW)   (Girt   -->   triG)   -- (Like   Palindromes) "HenHanna" <HenHanna@Posting.from.CsiPh> - 2026-05-31 00:29 +0000
  Re: (atbash) -- (Wizard --> draziW) (Girt --> triG) -- (Like Palindromes) Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org> - 2026-05-31 11:56 +1000
    Re: (atbash) -- (Wizard --> draziW) (Girt --> triG) -- (Like Palindromes) "HenHanna" <HenHanna@Posting.from.CsiPh> - 2026-05-31 05:14 +0000
      Re: (atbash) -- (Wizard --> draziW) (Girt --> triG) -- (Like Palindromes) James Dow Allen <user4353@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-05-31 18:05 +0000
    Re: (atbash) -- (Wizard --> draziW) (Girt --> triG) -- (Like Palindromes) Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> - 2026-05-31 13:49 +0000
      Re: (atbash) -- (Wizard --> draziW) (Girt --> triG) -- (Like Palindromes) Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> - 2026-05-31 14:57 +0000
        Re: (atbash) -- (Wizard --> draziW) (Girt --> triG) -- (Like Palindromes) Snidely <snidely.too@gmail.com> - 2026-05-31 11:53 -0700
      Re: (atbash) -- (Wizard --> draziW) (Girt --> triG) -- (Like Palindromes) Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org> - 2026-06-01 10:07 +1000
  Re: (atbash) --   (Wizard  -->   draziW)   (Girt   -->   triG)   -- (Like   Palindromes) "HenHanna" <HenHanna@Posting.from.CsiPh> - 2026-05-31 19:24 +0000

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