Is the use of shew and glew as the past tense of show and glow . . . Shew was once the most common past participle of show, with shewn also appearing and shew or shewed for the past tense It also has a long use as the present tense For added confusion, shew seems to have changed pronunciation before it changed spelling, so if you come across shew in an older text you can't be sure whether it would be pronounced ʃuː or pronounced ʃəʊ It remained very
Show, shown, and showed - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Its conjugation is : "shew shewed shewed or shewn" ] The past participle "showed" is very rare It may be used in mediocre A E active construction; but it should NOT be used as per standard B E Active voice : I showed my camera to my friend Passive voice : My camera was shown (NOT, was showed) to my friend by me
nouns - English Language Usage Stack Exchange This is something very odd I have noticed in some older books, most recently in "Crime and Punishment" by Dostoyevsky Place names, when not specifically essential or well-known, are made up of one
Alignment or alinement? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange I was reading Wonders of World Aviation the other day, published in the late thirties, and have found a couple of articles where alinement is preferred to alignment While this seems to make sense,
What is the plural form of zero? - English Language Usage Stack . . . But it hath been shewn, that the mean expansion of air is really greater, for such temperatures at least as the barometer can be applied in, than what Mr De Luc supposed it, in proportion of 24 5 to 210; whence it follows, that 61 69 2 45 = 25° 18 + 32° = 57° 18, will denote the relative positions of the two zeros; which, instead of almost