- verbs - The pronunciation of ate - English Language Usage Stack . . .
I find the OED note puzzling, because the OED2 (and OED3—there was no change) article gives the pronunciation of ate as “ eɪt ɛt iːt ” and also makes it clear that eɪt is the older form, with εt being analogically formed based on similarly patterning strong verbs like read and lead (and also beat and heat in certain dialectal
- meaning - I just ate them and Ive just eaten them — Whats the . . .
"I ate it" is regarding the event on its own without considering any present relevance - even possibly those same acts of eating the curry, the cake and the polar bear In a similar way, some expressions of time encompass the present "Just" and "just now" do, and so normally do "today" and "this afternoon" (assuming it is still this afternoon)
- suffixes - Pronunciation of the -ate suffix - English Language Usage . . .
1 I don't know about a process, but the difference in pronunciation can be interpreted as resulting from -ate verbs all having some kind of stress* on the last syllable, while -ate nouns or adjectives can have a fully unstressed last syllable
- What is the origin of the 7 8 9 joke? - English Language Usage . . .
The Home News SILLY SQUARE … Why did 6 cry? Because 7 ate 9 — Gina D'Amato, 9, Milltown … As I'm of a certain age, I tend to blame all jokes like this on the anonymous geniuses at Dixie Cup Corporation, who produced a line of riddle cups in the 1970s, and again in the 1990s So far, I haven't been able to verify that the onus belongs
- Should ate and eight be pronounced exactly alike?
In BrE, ate is sometimes pronounced et , and the Cambridge Dictionary gives this pronunciation Even if ate is pronounced like eight, there may well be subtle differences
- Understanding as of, as at, and as from
Joel is mistaken when he says that as of means "up to and including a point of time," although it is often used to mean so As of designates the point in time from which something occurs So as of some point would mean from the date specified onward However, his answering of the best way to say each phrase is spot on One may use either until or up to to mean the time before which something
- Whats the difference between I did eat and I ate?
In short, what is the difference between the following sentences? I did eat my lunch an hour ago I ate my lunch an hour ago They both are past tense Honestly, I'm confused between them
- What American English dialect has et as the past tense of eat?
4 In several books and TV shows, there have been characters who say "et" instead of "ate" (As in, "I et dinner yesterday at 6:00") I looked it up on Wiktionary, which defines it but doesn't say where it's used: et (colloquial or dialectal) simple past tense and past participle of eat
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