Talk:List of English irregular verbs

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There are currently some irregular verbs missing:

• abide
• beget
• chide
• deep-freeze

Ncik 00:41, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

It seems to me that abide and chide have been turned or were in the first place regular (abide, abided, abided; chide, chided, chided). I am unconvinced deep-freeze is a verb of its own any more than heavy labor or hard work; deep is just modifing freeze. You may have a point on beget. --66.67.57.134 07:40, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

I also don't see "undergo". (outgo and forego are in there). Maybe compound words should be listed with the main word, so undergo, forego, etc. would be best off listed with go. Ken Arromdee 21:59, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Lie

Okay, I'm aware that a dictionary will tell you that the past of "I'm gonna lie down in my bed" is "I lay down in my bed", and the pp. is "I had just lain down in my bed"... however, this is about the English language, not the English dictionary. As there is no official academy for English, the language is defined by actual worldwide usage. (Anyone can write a dictionary, after all.) If it weren't for the dictionaries being so insistently archaic, we wouldn't have lay and lain in there at all, at least if I had my way. (After all, we don't have "span" as a past of "to spin", among tons of others...) Oh well. Thoughts? Matt Yeager ♫ (Talk?) 00:22, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Well, no, not anyone can write a dictionary. Modern dictionaries are based upon VAST amounts of painstaking descriptive work, and few of us are qualified to do this. If a form you use is not in the dictionary, chances are it is your own private quirk, which you are entitled to, but let's leave it at that.

The present article has got to be about irregular verbs in standard English, because all the possible variants in non-standard varieties would just blow the scope of it. Or do you really want me to put in all the variants I know from Scotland??? You may say something colloquially, and it's one of the glories of the richness of our language that you are able to do that. But a list of irregular verbs should only include forms which you can show from a verifiable source to be regarded as standard in either Britain or America. --Doric Loon 13:38, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Breastfeed/ Breast-feed

Is this irregular? Similar to spoonfeed? RAYMI. If so, please add. 01/12/2006

Yes, this is irregular - it goes like feed-fed-fed. However I wonder if it is really helpful to include all possible compound verbs in this table. --Doric Loon 09:48, 2 December 2006 (UTC)