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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Regional, but also English grammar is weird. [/quote]

How is it weird? You were either taught proper English, or not.  This should have been taught starting in the 1st grade. Even if you hear it at home or "in the streets" what you're learning in school trumps all of that.  [/quote]

You don't think it's weird that the verb "to go" turns into "went" for past tense and then "gone" for past participle? How do you get "went" from "go"? [/quote]

It is just an irregular verb, basically because it is a combination of two different words.

[b]gān[/b]- Old English "to go, to leave"  from which we get "go, gaed, gone". Past tense was [b]gaed[/b] (sort of like "goed").

[b]wenden[/b] - Old English turning, direction... became synonymous with "go" in some areas.  Wenden, wended, wente.

In the North of England the past tense of go continued to be "gaed" but for some reason, "wente" started to be used as the past tense in Southern England, which was more high status and has become the "official" English.

We have otherwise mostly dropped the "wended" verb except to say "He wended his way..." occasionally.

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