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Most of our verbs -- all except 150 or so -- are regular, as are all the new verbs that we acquire. For example, here are two recent acquaisitions:I guess people can stop worrying about the weird new words being created by texting teenagers.
I faxed a letter to you yesrerday.
I have e-mailed the invitation to our reunion.
Understanding English Grammar 8th edition
Martha Kolln and Robert Funk
p. 68
The new verbs are lots more regular than the old ones.
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That's all right, we can make up for the influx by transforming perfectly regular "weak" verbs (sneak, sneaked, sneaked; dive, dived, dived) into "strong" verbs (sneak, snuck, snuck; dive, dove, dove).
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