Help !
Posted by Bruce Kahl on October 01, 2003
In Reply to: Help ! posted by Cath on October 01, 2003
: Beaumont's Angels (= there are 6 of us, teaching English at "Lycée Beaumont, Redon, Britanny, France")are getting desperate ! we 're having a tough time finding some coherent grammatical rule we could give our students about the pronounciation of the adjectives finishing with "-ed". Why do you say "crooked"[-id], "wicked" [-id],"legged" [-id]...and "eyed" [aid],"barbed"(wire) [barbd]...?
: Any help welcome !
Why?
Cause we are the US of A and can do anything we want--take out people we don't like, terrorize people, bomb innocents, imprison citizens who speak out and generally swagger drunkenly around the globe causing terrible misery.
Now back to the real question you asked:
I am sure some word smith that populates this region of the internet will surely help you soon.
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