Thursday, October 14, 2010

Past Tense Tricks

Cameron loves listening to audiobooks.  A few days ago, he paused his current selection and said to me, "There's no such word as 'writed,' is there?  You say 'wrote' not 'writed.'" 

"That's right," I replied.

"I knew it!" he crowed triumphantly.  "They made a mistake in this book!"

"They did?  They said 'writed' in your book?  Are you sure they weren't quoting someone speaking?"

"No," he replied.  "They said 'righted a wrong.'"

1 comment:

Grandma Linda said...

English is so confusing! I think I should right, I mean write someone about this problem.