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.
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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