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For anyone wondering (like I was), Merriam Webster gives both "smooths" and "smoothes" for 3rd person singular of "smooth (verb)". https://www.merriam-webster.
by kleiba 3y ago
For anyone wondering (like I was), Merriam Webster gives both "smooths" and "smoothes" for 3rd person singular of "smooth (verb)".
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/smooth#dictionary-entry-2 https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/smooth#dictionary...
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- veqq 3y agoDigging further: > While smoothes was always considerably less popular than smooths until the 1990s, it was still massively more popular than smoothe was. > Breath, teeth, sheath all have verbs with an e on the end, but smooth and its (variant) verb smoothe are pronounced the same. https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/103422/smooths-versus-smoothes https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/103422/smooths-v...