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AnotherTry
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Past tense of “text”
- June 10, 2011, 6:32am
Also: quit:quit, slit:slit, set:set, put:put. Perhaps a rule might be that if it ends in "t" then the plural is the same as the singular.
Computer mouses or computer mice?
- June 10, 2011, 4:49am
Official ruling? Do we have a National Academy as they do for Spanish?
Past tense of “text”
- June 10, 2011, 4:40am
Text will probably go regular in the past tense i.e. "texted" but the past tense could also easily be "text." as in the past tense of other verbs ending in "t": burst:burst, cut:cut, cost:cost, cast:cast, bet:bet. The tendency seems to be to make words regular - note the use of "mouses", not "mice" for more than one computer mouse.
“I recommend that you do not” vs. “I recommend you not”
All four work for me.