[34] Always used in place of rinse.
[35] Always used in place of roil.
[36] Sot is heard as a localism only.
[37] See set, which is used almost invariably in place of sit.
[38] Thunk is never used seriously; it always shows humorous intent.
[39] See pp. 201 and 211.
[40] Cf. Lounsbury: History of the English Language, pp. 309-10.
[41] English As We Speak It In Ireland, p. 77.
[42] The Science of Language, vol. i, p. 166.
[43] The last stand of the distinct -ed was made in Addison's day. He was in favor of retaining it, and in the Spectator for Aug. 4, 1711, he protested against obliterating the syllable in the termination "of our praeter perfect tense, as in these words, drown'd, walk'd, arriv'd, for drowned, walked, arrived, which has very much disfigured the tongue, and turned a tenth part of our smoothest words into so many clusters of consonants."