Is “oversleep” the only verb where its past participle is more common?
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According to google ngrams, “overslept” is more common than “oversleep”, but “sleep” is more common than “slept”.
I can’t think of any other words where the past participle or simple past is more common than the dictionary form. Is “oversleep” unusual in this, and are any other verbs like this?
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According to google ngrams, “overslept” is more common than “oversleep”, but “sleep” is more common than “slept”.
I can’t think of any other words where the past participle or simple past is more common than the dictionary form. Is “oversleep” unusual in this, and are any other verbs like this?
verbs past-participle simple-past
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Bear (v) and born have that kind of distribution. Born is far more common than the plain form bear in the sense of bear children.
– John Lawler
9 hours ago
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Can't use ngrams for this sort of thing. It only tells you about appearances in print. There's a far greater tendency to use the past tense in texts than in speech, merely because many of those texts are stories which tend to use past tense far more often than they use present tense. For every "experimental" narrative in the present tense you can find 100 in the past, maybe even 1000.
– TRomano
9 hours ago
Whether a particular length of time asleep constitutes oversleeping tends to be judged after the person wakes up, so it would be mostly discussed in the past tense.
– Michael Harvey
8 hours ago
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Big interview tomorrow. I'm setting my alarm clock, my phone, and Alexa so I don't oversleep. The statistical analysis here is specious from the get-go.
– TRomano
8 hours ago
Sleep is also a noun, so probably not the best example. The results show "he slept" being much more common than "he sleeps". This is very hard to actually get statistical data on, because the data that make up any corpus will skew towards past tense for obvious reasons. However we can make a case on rational grounds for why a the simple past of past participle might be more than common than the present. For example, past participles are very often used as adjectives too, and, well maybe other arguments.
– Zebrafish
3 hours ago
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According to google ngrams, “overslept” is more common than “oversleep”, but “sleep” is more common than “slept”.
I can’t think of any other words where the past participle or simple past is more common than the dictionary form. Is “oversleep” unusual in this, and are any other verbs like this?
verbs past-participle simple-past
asked 9 hours ago
Andrew GrimmAndrew Grimm
10.7k2386160
According to google ngrams, “overslept” is more common than “oversleep”, but “sleep” is more common than “slept”.
I can’t think of any other words where the past participle or simple past is more common than the dictionary form. Is “oversleep” unusual in this, and are any other verbs like this?
verbs past-participle simple-past
verbs past-participle simple-past
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Andrew GrimmAndrew Grimm
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asked 9 hours ago
Andrew GrimmAndrew Grimm
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asked 9 hours ago
Andrew GrimmAndrew Grimm
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asked 9 hours ago
Andrew GrimmAndrew Grimm
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asked 9 hours ago
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Bear (v) and born have that kind of distribution. Born is far more common than the plain form bear in the sense of bear children.
– John Lawler
9 hours ago
2
Can't use ngrams for this sort of thing. It only tells you about appearances in print. There's a far greater tendency to use the past tense in texts than in speech, merely because many of those texts are stories which tend to use past tense far more often than they use present tense. For every "experimental" narrative in the present tense you can find 100 in the past, maybe even 1000.
– TRomano
9 hours ago
Whether a particular length of time asleep constitutes oversleeping tends to be judged after the person wakes up, so it would be mostly discussed in the past tense.
– Michael Harvey
8 hours ago
1
Big interview tomorrow. I'm setting my alarm clock, my phone, and Alexa so I don't oversleep. The statistical analysis here is specious from the get-go.
– TRomano
8 hours ago
Sleep is also a noun, so probably not the best example. The results show "he slept" being much more common than "he sleeps". This is very hard to actually get statistical data on, because the data that make up any corpus will skew towards past tense for obvious reasons. However we can make a case on rational grounds for why a the simple past of past participle might be more than common than the present. For example, past participles are very often used as adjectives too, and, well maybe other arguments.
– Zebrafish
3 hours ago
add a comment |
1
Bear (v) and born have that kind of distribution. Born is far more common than the plain form bear in the sense of bear children.
– John Lawler
9 hours ago
2
Can't use ngrams for this sort of thing. It only tells you about appearances in print. There's a far greater tendency to use the past tense in texts than in speech, merely because many of those texts are stories which tend to use past tense far more often than they use present tense. For every "experimental" narrative in the present tense you can find 100 in the past, maybe even 1000.
– TRomano
9 hours ago
Whether a particular length of time asleep constitutes oversleeping tends to be judged after the person wakes up, so it would be mostly discussed in the past tense.
– Michael Harvey
8 hours ago
1
Big interview tomorrow. I'm setting my alarm clock, my phone, and Alexa so I don't oversleep. The statistical analysis here is specious from the get-go.
– TRomano
8 hours ago
Sleep is also a noun, so probably not the best example. The results show "he slept" being much more common than "he sleeps". This is very hard to actually get statistical data on, because the data that make up any corpus will skew towards past tense for obvious reasons. However we can make a case on rational grounds for why a the simple past of past participle might be more than common than the present. For example, past participles are very often used as adjectives too, and, well maybe other arguments.
– Zebrafish
3 hours ago
1
1
Bear (v) and born have that kind of distribution. Born is far more common than the plain form bear in the sense of bear children.
– John Lawler
9 hours ago
Bear (v) and born have that kind of distribution. Born is far more common than the plain form bear in the sense of bear children.
– John Lawler
9 hours ago
2
2
Can't use ngrams for this sort of thing. It only tells you about appearances in print. There's a far greater tendency to use the past tense in texts than in speech, merely because many of those texts are stories which tend to use past tense far more often than they use present tense. For every "experimental" narrative in the present tense you can find 100 in the past, maybe even 1000.
– TRomano
9 hours ago
Can't use ngrams for this sort of thing. It only tells you about appearances in print. There's a far greater tendency to use the past tense in texts than in speech, merely because many of those texts are stories which tend to use past tense far more often than they use present tense. For every "experimental" narrative in the present tense you can find 100 in the past, maybe even 1000.
– TRomano
9 hours ago
Whether a particular length of time asleep constitutes oversleeping tends to be judged after the person wakes up, so it would be mostly discussed in the past tense.
– Michael Harvey
8 hours ago
Whether a particular length of time asleep constitutes oversleeping tends to be judged after the person wakes up, so it would be mostly discussed in the past tense.
– Michael Harvey
8 hours ago
1
1
Big interview tomorrow. I'm setting my alarm clock, my phone, and Alexa so I don't oversleep. The statistical analysis here is specious from the get-go.
– TRomano
8 hours ago
Big interview tomorrow. I'm setting my alarm clock, my phone, and Alexa so I don't oversleep. The statistical analysis here is specious from the get-go.
– TRomano
8 hours ago
Sleep is also a noun, so probably not the best example. The results show "he slept" being much more common than "he sleeps". This is very hard to actually get statistical data on, because the data that make up any corpus will skew towards past tense for obvious reasons. However we can make a case on rational grounds for why a the simple past of past participle might be more than common than the present. For example, past participles are very often used as adjectives too, and, well maybe other arguments.
– Zebrafish
3 hours ago
Sleep is also a noun, so probably not the best example. The results show "he slept" being much more common than "he sleeps". This is very hard to actually get statistical data on, because the data that make up any corpus will skew towards past tense for obvious reasons. However we can make a case on rational grounds for why a the simple past of past participle might be more than common than the present. For example, past participles are very often used as adjectives too, and, well maybe other arguments.
– Zebrafish
3 hours ago
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Bear (v) and born have that kind of distribution. Born is far more common than the plain form bear in the sense of bear children.
– John Lawler
9 hours ago
2
Can't use ngrams for this sort of thing. It only tells you about appearances in print. There's a far greater tendency to use the past tense in texts than in speech, merely because many of those texts are stories which tend to use past tense far more often than they use present tense. For every "experimental" narrative in the present tense you can find 100 in the past, maybe even 1000.
– TRomano
9 hours ago
Whether a particular length of time asleep constitutes oversleeping tends to be judged after the person wakes up, so it would be mostly discussed in the past tense.
– Michael Harvey
8 hours ago
1
Big interview tomorrow. I'm setting my alarm clock, my phone, and Alexa so I don't oversleep. The statistical analysis here is specious from the get-go.
– TRomano
8 hours ago
Sleep is also a noun, so probably not the best example. The results show "he slept" being much more common than "he sleeps". This is very hard to actually get statistical data on, because the data that make up any corpus will skew towards past tense for obvious reasons. However we can make a case on rational grounds for why a the simple past of past participle might be more than common than the present. For example, past participles are very often used as adjectives too, and, well maybe other arguments.
– Zebrafish
3 hours ago