Digging further: > While smoothes was always considerably less popular than smooths until the 1990s, it was still massively more popular than smoothe was. > B

Digging 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...