By my lights, this is a misnomer because despite the fact there's an extra variable in the example there when you unswizzle the pointer, pointers are magical and by converting them to a couple of basic integers you definitely swizzle the fizz out of them.
Today's idiom: "sleep tight" "All is ready and we leave as soon as breakfast is over. Goodbye little Diary. /‘Sleep tight and wake bright,’ for I will need you when I return." -Susan Bradford Eppes
Hello everyone, I am struggling to find a precise and exhaustive list of all English irregular verbs and their pronunciation. Can someone please enlight me for the pronunciation of "chid and chidden" for the irregular verb "to chide, chid, chidden" please?
@Hexacoordinate-C I believe Wikipedia has a pretty exhaustive list of them. I can't say I've ever seen chide used as an irregular verb (and there are zero actual results for chide, while there is one for chidden, from 1993, in the Corpus of Contemporary American English), and learner's dictionaries such as the Oxford one or the LDOCE don't even mention the irregular forms.
@Hexacoordinate-C Oh dear, I just checked a few online dictionaries and indeed it is not listed there. I am wondering whether a pronunciation dictionary has these, but I don't know now.
Anyway, the Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary entry in this case contains the pronunciation you want (merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chid), but the IPA transcriptions (which MW does not use) can be found here. You'd do well to always check all the dictionaries you have available.
I'm talking about this list on Wikipedia, not the abbreviated one in the main article.
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@Hexacoordinate-C There's no such thing as a precise and exhaustive list of irregular verbs. Language is fuzzy and changes over time.
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In the case of the regular verb chide, the irregular forms fell out of use around a hundred years ago. I can't put a precise date on it because it was a gradual process, but it's no longer an irregular verb today.
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Chidden is /ˈtʃɪdən/ and chid is /ˈtʃɪd/, for what it's worth.
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@JasperLoy Yes, the Longman Pronunciation Dictionary lists the pronunciations I just gave.