English usage changes all the time — who knowed?
Language is at the mercy of its user and is always evolving — and verbs are some of the biggest casualties
English has changed countless times to an extent that its original form might as well be considered another language. Words came and went (and continue to), pronunciation changed, other languages had their say and everyday users morphed the language into whatever they needed at a given point in time — possibly never more so than today: the age of information. For example, many no longer consider whom the object, and if the subjunctive was to disappear entirely, so too might clarity. Others still sacrifice outdated dictionaries to the language gods for ridding words such as among and amid of their tails — st. But many have also warned of the linguistic apocalypse that lies ahead, especially in a time of social media. And given the rate that information flows today, changes — and doomsday — are likely to come fast. In the last days of 2018, researchers in England published a study into the so-called regularisation of verbs — to opt for the suffix -ed, for example, learned instead of l...
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