atw: Shrank or shrunk?
- From: Howard Silcock <howard.silcock@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 10:09:43 +1100
Anyone interested in this question may like to look at the following article
by William Safire in the New York Times from 1995:
http://www.nytimes.com/1995/07/16/magazine/on-language-how-shrunk-snuck-in.html?pagewanted=1
It seems that in 1995 the use of 'shrunk' as a past tense was still being
questioned in America (the film 'Honey, I shrunk the kids' came out in
1989). Maybe my outrage at the movie title wasn't just parochialism.
Howard
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