English, like most Germanic languages, has many regular ("weak") verbs, like work, worked, worked (in standard dictionary format, listing present, past, and past participle), and a bewildering ...

The evolution of the past tense - how verbs change over time Explore the evolutionary dynamics of language through verb changes seen from Old English to modern times. Discover the future of irregular ...

Irregular verbs are the bane of any effort to learn English, but new research looking at how language evolves suggests frequent use keeps pesky irregular verbs like "take" from evolving into "taked." ...

The team identified 177 irregular verbs used in Old English and tracked their use over the centuries from the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf to the latest Harry Potter novel.

There is one verb that is irregular and weak in the past tense, but strong in the the non-progressive participle: do, did, done. A few verbs are strong in the past tense, but weak regular in the ...

An historical study of the development of irregular verbs in the hundreds of Romance languages including French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian and Catalan has revealed how these ...

The process beginned hundreds of years ago and bringed a huge change in our use of the language. Now researchers believe more of the irregular verbs that make English such a rich and varied ...