[Grammar] irregular verb

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Monica de Celis

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hello,
I'm an English teacher. I've got a question... One of my students has just told me that in one book he's got, the irregular verb "hear" is also accepted as regular. I've been checking the internet, but I haven't found it as regular, and I've never seen it as regular... Is it correct to say I've heared?
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Not in standard BrE. I am fairly sure that it is not acceptable in standard AmE.
 

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hello,
I'm an English teacher. I've got a question... One of my students has just told me that in one book he's got, the irregular verb "hear" is also accepted as regular. I've been checking the internet, but I haven't found it as regular, and I've never seen it as regular... Is it correct to say I've heared?
Thank you!! :)
There's a very simple solution to this. Ask the child to bring the book to school.
The book might be a very old grammar book published by a company in a place and time where "heared" was acceptable. It might also have been published in Kazakhstan. He might also have misread the sentence.

It's never too early to teach a child that "I heard/read it somewhere", etc. is not evidence of much at all, and that if evidence of something important is said to exist, it should be presented for verification.
 

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According to One Look Dictionary Search, it appears in Webster's 1828 dictionary, and Wordnik has this to say: Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia


  1. An obsolete or dialectal form of heard.
 

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What's with the tweets, I wonder?
Tweets

  • “juss heared mee & #1002 songgg - ___- you really had me goingg yooooo . " leaving u is what iwont do " mmmm .”
    @simplyy_bellaa
  • “you said u loved me in december i rememberrr and dats what i heared
    @tokyodiamond2
  • \]
Does that mean "juss, mee, goingg, yooooo, u, mmmmm, remberrr, dats" are candidates for wordhoodness now too?
 

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I think they are examples of wordhoodiness.
 

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