It scares me that I find the following information to be fascinating. This is the type of stuff that makes my boyfriend call me a 'nerd' - although I am his favorite kind of nerd - but somehow I don't think this makes me a nerd... I think it makes me smart or as he likes to say 'clever'... however check this out -- it's f'ing fascinating:

Most irregular verbs are eventually regularized under some sort of linguistic evolutionary pressure to obey the modern "ed" rule of regular verb conjugation. For instance "holp" the past tense of "help" became "helped" And "chode" became "chided" - althought I personally prefer 'chode' -- However, some irregular verbs are so embedded in everyday language that they will never regularize. Although less than 3% of modern verbs are irregular, the 10 most common verbs (be, have, do, go, say, can, will, see, take, get) are irregular, reasearchers said. They calculated the half-lives of 'be' and 'have' at 38,800 years, making them the least mutable of the irregular verbs.

But what's the next irregular verb to take an -ed?... I'm sure you're not nerdy enough to want to have a contest to figure this out... so I'll just tell you. It's "Wed" -- the term newly 'wed' is going to be gone soon -- and replaced with 'wedded'... which sounds odd.

For some reason all this talk of verbs reminds me of a sentence that my lesbian eighth grade English teacher gave us for a dictation -- and I was the only one who thought it odd! or maybe I thinked it odd!

The bibliophile fingered the book fondly.

And p.s. she was staring at me when she said it. I mean said-ed it... I se-ed her with my own eyes. And I get-ed nervous!