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

From	Snidely <snidely.too@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	sci.lang, rec.puzzles, alt.usage.english
Subject	Re: (atbash) -- (Wizard --> draziW) (Girt --> triG) -- (Like Palindromes)
Date	2026-05-31 11:53 -0700
Organization	Dis One
Message-ID	<mn.fac97ea54d3e9caa.127094@snitoo> (permalink)
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On Sunday, Christian Weisgerber exclaimed wildly:
> On 2026-05-31, Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> PS:
> Wikipedia's
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_irregular_verbs
> categorizes the verbs: strong, weak, preterite-present, and a few
> other odds and ends.

And of course it cross-references the explanation of the classes at
<URL:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_irregular_verbs>

/dps

-- 
"I am not given to exaggeration, and when I say a thing I mean it"
   _Roughing It_, Mark Twain

Thread

(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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