Re: Another pesky verbal -d-

From: Richard Wordingham
Message: 55855
Date: 2008-03-24

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
[Reposting because I'd mangled the previous version! Sorry.]

> Nice. But I was wondering about 'descendidit' There's a 'de' too many.
> Or is it *skan-do:, -dedi: ?

But at what level? Why isn't it that just a hypercorrection based on
other compounds of 'dare'? (I mean in such synchronic understanding
as there was at the time.)

Richard.