Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...After a tough week of school, why don't we say 'This week really bit? Or bited? Or bitted?'" quipped author Steven Pinker during his talk last night at the Graduate School of Education...
Addressing a standing-room only crowd, Pinker explained the origins of children's grammatical mistakes, the etymology of irregular verbs and why, for example, people say "slept" instead of "sleeped." His sprinkling of uncommon and incorrect forms of words throughout the talk, such as "smote," "clove" and "cleaved," elicited bursts of laughter from his audience...
Ever wonder why we say that a baseball player "flied out to center" instead of "flew out to center"? Pinker explained that the meaning of the word 'fly' has changed as the word changed from a verb to the noun 'fly ball' and then back to a verb. Over that transformation, the suffix for the past tense has also changed...
...hoping he wouldn't say...
...say that again, Jeff. Just don't let any interceptions slip through your hands this time...