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No, but we have a similar one - lend and borrow have become interchangeable. "Can you borrow me an X" or "I lended (not even word AFAIK) it from him" is one I h
by madaxe_again 11y ago
No, but we have a similar one - lend and borrow have become interchangeable. "Can you borrow me an X" or "I lended (not even word AFAIK) it from him" is one I hear often from younger folks.
- hrnnnnnn 11y agoWhen they grow up, if enough of them still say "lended", it will be put into the dictionary.
- rquantz 11y agoLended is also an Americanism.
- JoeAltmaier 11y agoThat one I understand. It was an exception anyway; lended is more straightforward. Like 'builded' vs 'built'. The sign on our old 1800-era edifice says "Builded 1838" so I guess they used to use that (or at least write it that way)
- madaxe_again 11y agoIndeed. Language evolves, or we'd all be speaking PIE. Just sounds funny to my fossilised ear.
- logingone 11y agoIdiocracy.
- almightysmudge 11y agoI've heard "lent" but never "lended". "I lent a pen off him", "he lent me a pen". Could be a Northern thing though.
- almightysmudge 11y agoTurns out "lent" is actually the past tense of "lend". Not sure where my head was this afternoon.
- neverknowsbest 11y ago'lended + from' is new to me, only heard 'lended + to' in the past... One I noticed in popular use a few years ago (Canada): the word "itch" as a verb, i.e.: "I itched it" "he was itching himself" Sounds odd to me.