Re[2]: [tied] Re: Syncope

At 8:25:55 PM on Tuesday, March 30, 2004,
enlil@... wrote:

> Richard:
>> there is the notorious 3 consonant cluster in the
>> presumably obsolescent verb /tilgref/ 'to telegraph' -
>> but reportedly not in the process of verb conjugation

> Yes, but this is a foreign word obviously. It may need
> time yet to nativize into normal grammatical processes
> like English "strive" did.

Just out of curiosity, what do you consider normal here?
The weak conjugation would be normal for a borrowing, but
the OED says that the (very English) strong conjugation on
the model of <drive> is older and has always been the more
common of the two (and it's certainly the one that I
learned).

Brian