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From: alan@allegra.UUCP (Alan S. Driscoll)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: Any new irregular verbs?
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Date: Tue, 22-May-84 20:46:52 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 22 20:46:52 1984
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> ... I haven't got a German
> dictionary or grammar handy but after racking my brain a bit the only
> likely candidate that I can think of is "shit" which is regular in English
> (in my dictionary at least; I had to look it up because I don't use the past
> tense very often) but I think "scheissen" is strong.

Is "shit" really regular?  (Don't even think it...)  In the past tense,
either "shit" or "shat" sounds ok to me, but "shitted" definately sounds
wrong.  Of course, you can always punt and say "took a shit." 
-- 

	Alan S. Driscoll
	AT&T Bell Laboratories