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26 June 2007

Today's lost verb. Why is the past tense of "will go" 'went'? Went is the past tense of the lost verb, 'wend', today surviving only in the archaic phrase 'wend your way'. Please pour a 40 on the curb for "wend".

post by: Capn at: 13:04 | 9 comments

This will not wend ell.

posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson 26 June | 13:05

Gone with the Wend.

posted by taz 26 June | 13:17

Wend-e red, red robin
Comes bob-bob-bobbin' along...

posted by essexjan 26 June | 13:29

Ahem. It's not the past tense of "will go," it's the past tense of "go." You know, since we're being grammar snobby.

posted by mudpuppie 26 June | 13:32

Ahem, I am the past tense of some cheap white wine and a smooth line of beatnik patter sometime right around the new year 1975. I wended out of my moms's belly in Beth Israel hospital on 14th street and I was yellow, as the tale is told.

posted by Divine_Wino 26 June | 13:42

Preterite.

posted by box 26 June | 13:46

I feel like the Wino and I might be pretty much exactly the same age.

posted by gaspode 26 June | 14:12

You feel like the floor of a bus station bathroom made out of lasers?

posted by Divine_Wino 26 June | 14:36

Official radio station
Official magazine
Official Slavic tribe
Suggested theme song: George Thorogood's "Back to Wentzville"
(I'd always thought the song title was a pun, but Wentzville's a real place; in fact, Chuck Berry was born there.)

posted by kirkaracha 26 June | 16:15

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