Talk:-ed

past tenses

The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language, page 88, reads

if took could be the realisation of either a preterite or an irrealis, there'd be no way of telling in cases like [29ii] (If he took the 
later plane  tonight he wouldn’t have to rush) whether it corresponded to was or to were.

What would the -ed form in bold be called in such an example? --Backinstadiums (talk) 16:20, 6 October 2019 (UTC)

/-ɛd/

According to the Longman English Pronunciation Dictionary,

In singing, exceptionally, a strong-vowelled variant /-ɛd/ is usual. 

A ‘syllabic’ pronunciation of the ending formerly applied to all -ed  formations, and is still heard when people recite older literature, where it may be required for scansion purposes: thus (only in imitated old pronunciation) seemed  ˈsiːmɪd. Certain adjectives have 'ɪd, əd', as  wicked, and the same applies also to most words in  -edly, -edness.

--Backinstadiums (talk) 16:39, 8 February 2020 (UTC)

honied

How better to account for honied ? --Backinstadiums (talk) 17:33, 6 August 2021 (UTC)