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If you could would you open a Yarn Store?

Thu, 2005-11-24 11:02 — knitcrazed
Yes
77% (59 votes)
No
14% (11 votes)
I would but there are too many!
5% (4 votes)
Are you crazy, the knitting fad will end and I'll loose the shirt off my back!
4% (3 votes)
Total votes: 77

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The grammar of knitting

Thu, 2005-11-24 00:08 — Darrel

Before I was a college-dropout, I was a linguistics major and find great delight in regional variations in language.  While making flash cards for one of English students, I realized that the past tense of knit can either be knit or knitted.

I was wondering if you good people would indulge me and reply back whether you "knit a scarf yesterday" or if you "knitted a scarf yesterday" and where you're from.

Here's how I conjugate it in the past tense:

I knit a scarf yesterday.
You knit a scarf yesterday.
He/She knitted a scarf yesterday.