Strided or strode?

[Middleoftheroad]

He strided across the room
or
He strode across the room?

Strode.

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 . One slip, fair enough, but I wasn't familiar with strided in that sense.

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

Strode and those

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

surely strided and rided don't exist?

Strode. No such word as strided.

Strode, and those.

You might want to rethink that English tutor.

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

Strode - definitely, Never heard anyone say strided

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!

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.

"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!!

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

Stride, strode, stridden.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Would drive me mad. Would drop them.

If you can drop the tutor, do so.

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