-ed in archaic English
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The regular past tense and participle inflection in current English is -ed. This has been true for a long time - but it is not always realized that it represents different sounds (see -ed (phonetic). Before the standardization of spelling in the eighteenth century, these '-ed- sound(s)were often spelled more phonetic ally). Shakespeare and his Early Modern
