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Strided or strode?

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Middleoftheroad · 11/11/2017 18:16

He strided across the room
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He strode across the room?

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PuppyMonkey · 11/11/2017 18:17

Strode.

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Middleoftheroad · 11/11/2017 18:42

Thanks - it's just I heard our English tutor say this today to my son (11).

It was the first lesson and he also referred to 'them' boys Angry. One slip, fair enough, but I wasn't familiar with strided in that sense.

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shhhfastasleep · 11/11/2017 20:49

Not even sure strided is a word. Although it might have been one our ancestors used and dumped.

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ozymandiusking · 11/11/2017 20:57

Strode and those

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Middleoftheroad · 11/11/2017 22:01

Guessing that saying strided is like saying he rided - as opposed to he rode!

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Jayfee · 11/11/2017 22:05

surely strided and rided don't exist?

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Eolian · 11/11/2017 22:06

Strode. No such word as strided.

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Pollaidh · 11/11/2017 22:11

Strode, and those.

You might want to rethink that English tutor.

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KickAssAngel · 11/11/2017 22:16

This doesn't belong in pedants' corner. It belongs in plain & simple just WRONG corner, along with that tutor.

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Littlewhistle · 11/11/2017 22:19

Strode - definitely, Never heard anyone say strided

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Middleoftheroad · 12/11/2017 18:59

Thanks. I heard him say "strided" but did not want to correct him.

I looked at my son's notes today and saw that the tutor had written down 'strided' also!

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AuntieStella · 12/11/2017 19:04

It's 'strode'

But the irregular past tenses are - usually - found only in the commonest verbs (where the Anglo-Saxon conjugated forms lingered because they were used so much). Which got me wondering why 'stride' fossilised it's ancient form. As did 'run'. But not other locomotion.

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AuntieStella · 12/11/2017 19:05

"This doesn't belong in pedants' corner."

Why on earth not? Pedants' Corner is the place for all those who love language and love discussing it.

Shitty posters who insult others and derail based on grammar are seriously not welcome here!!

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EmilyDickinson · 12/11/2017 19:08

I love the way Anglo Saxons changed tense by changing the vowel. Sing, sang, sung. Ring, rang, rung. It's so musical.

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MollyHuaCha · 12/11/2017 19:09

Stride, strode, stridden.

(Never heard anyone ever say stridden though, even autocorrect wants to change it)

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AuntieStella · 12/11/2017 19:15

You do get 'bestrid' in Shakespeare - as in Cleopatra describing Anthony's legs. So usage was (perhaps) still in flux in early modern English.

Also, is it possible that it fossilised because it rhymes with 'ride' - a way commoner verb

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Middleoftheroad · 15/11/2017 18:53

Do you think I should give the tutor another chance or is this just unacceptable?

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Ttbb · 15/11/2017 18:55

Dear god, just please don't use that tutor, he'll do more harm than good.

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Middleoftheroad · 15/11/2017 18:57

That's what I'm worried about, but wondered if I waa being a bit harsh on his first lesson Hmm

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OlennasWimple · 21/11/2017 00:08

This is unacceptable from most people; from an English tutor it's practically a capital offence

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shouldwestayorshouldwego · 21/11/2017 00:11

Would drive me mad. Would drop them.

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shhhfastasleep · 21/11/2017 06:08

If you can drop the tutor, do so.

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saladdays66 · 22/11/2017 12:33

Strided and them?? Drop the tutor. What are their qualifications? Have never heard 'strided' in any sense...

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