irregular verb
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But other people’s mental grammars see “greenlight” as a form of the verb “to light”, an existing irregular verb with the past tense “lit”; hence “greenlit”.
From Economist • Sep. 22, 2016
Why pay so much attention to the lowly irregular verb?
From Time Magazine Archive
Bon mot: "In all languages the verb 'to disarm' seems to be an irregular verb."
From Time Magazine Archive
Some grammarians say, that, whenever the preterit of an irregular verb is like the present, it should take edst for the second person singular.
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold
It will be noticed in the final segment of this listing, beginning with Y, Rodriguez makes no effort to distinguish among Kami-ichidan, kami-nidan, and the irregular verb Ki 'to come.'
From Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese Language by Spear, Richard L.
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