Today the half-day of school was canceled because the power was out at the school. However, we had power here at home. So, all my boys had the day off and they spent their free time bickering, arguing and annoying one another and thus, annoying me.
I made the 13-year old twins watch “Schoolhouse Rock” on DVD as their “school” for the day. And later, they chose to watch a Disney movie, “Robin Hood,” for awhile. My daughter spent most of her time this morning outside, chasing and running and pretending. Despite the fifty-something degree temperatures, she refused to wear even a jacket. This child does not get cold.
I spent my day pondering the absence of the word “flang” in the English language. If you have “sing, sang, sung,” why don’t you have “fling, flang, flung”? I cannot let this conundrum go.
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and if the past tense of “sit” is “sat”, why isn’t the past tense of “fit” “fat”?
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Now I know why I don’t blog-you say it all for me!!!and why can’t we use the word “brung” bring, brang, brung??
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We DON’T have the word “flang”? I feel certain I’ve heard some of my southern relatives say that — but I think they are talking about the latest Hollywood romance. Let’s go on a crusade to incorporate “flang” into our vocabulary!
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Well its the same with swing swang and swung. Swang is not a word. Weird.
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ring, rang, rung?
English is so wierd.
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Ya’ll are most definitely not from the south, we flang things while we’re swangin all the time. 😉
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Funny language, eh? (See, I can say “eh?” ’cause I’m Canadian, but I don’t suppose that you feel compelled to.) I guess usage usually predated rules.
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Hmmm.
How about throw, threw, thrung?
Makes perfect sense to me.
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Spring Sprang Sprung even has a game named after it.
Thrang is definitely getting the shaft.
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oops! I meant flang is definitely getting the shaft. (But come to think of thring thrang and thrung should be words too, don’t you think?)
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The tenses of words drive me nuts, too. But the conundrum that drives me crazy is how many words can be spelled out of one word?? Like in the game “Text Twist”. With me, something like that is more from my slightly — did I say slightly?!? — obsessive/compulsive tendencies. I can be riding my bike in the basement, see a word like “detergent” on the side of a bottle, and spend my hour trying to think of every word I can make out of that one. And I’ll find myself doing it at odd hours the rest of the day, too. Drives me INSANE!! So I don’t play those kinds of games very often, haha!
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