Talk:burst

"a burst of energy"

...or, "bursts of energy" : the def for this sense seems to be missing. --Jerome Potts 03:44, 10 October 2009 (UTC)

bursted

There is evidence for bursted as a past tense; it may be archaic or dialectal. Equinox ◑ 18:20, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

The OED lists bursted for the two past forms as "8–9 incorrectly bursted" (the "8–9" means "eighteenth- to nineteenth-Century") in its entry for “burst, v.”, later noting that it's a US thing, wherein it is also written "vulgarly busted". My hypothesis is that bursted is labelled "incorrectly" spelt because it unetymologically mixes strong and weak conjugation paradigms.  — Raifʻhār Doremítzwr ~ (U · T · C) ~ 10:12, 28 May 2010 (UTC)