Sorry but this is totally wrong. The weak inflection in english with a dental suffix is an proto-germanic invention shared with all germanic languages. The rea

Sorry but this is totally wrong. The weak inflection in english with a dental suffix is an proto-germanic invention shared with all germanic languages. The reason why there are so many weak verbs is that the rules for strong verbs complicated over time so that the rules weren't obvious anymore and that the verbs were seen just as irregular (there is thought to have been just two verb classes originally in PIE http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_ablaut http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_ablaut, but there are already 7 of them in the old germanic languages http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_strong_verb#Strong_verb_classes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_strong_verb#Strong_ver...). Therefore new verbs couldn't be integrated as strong verbs by analogy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_weak_verb#Origins_of_the_weak_conjugation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_weak_verb#Origins_of_t...