I biked to my haircut in the rain yesterday because I’m an idiot but then had a great conversation with the woman who cuts my hair about how her elderly clients who can’t drive have to wait in the rain all the time for the bus
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In standard English, the formation of preterite and past participle forms of verbs by means of ablaut (as Germanic strong verbs, for example, sing-sang-sung) is no longer considered productive. Newly coined verbs in English overwhelmingly use the 'weak' (regular) ending -ed for the past tense and past participle (for example, spammed, e-mailed).
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