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THE AMERICAN LANGUAGE
Present Preterite Perfect Participle
Bleed bled bled
Blow blowed (or blew) blowed (or blew)
Break broken broke
Bring brought (or brung, or brang) brung
Broke (passive) broke broke
Build built built
Burn burnt [1] burnt
Burst [2]
Bust busted busted
Buy bought (or boughten) bought (or boughten)
Can could could'a
Catch caught[3] caught
Choose chose choose
Climb clum clum
Cling (to hold fast) clung clung
Cling (to ring) clang clang
Come come came
Creep crep (or crope) crep
Crow crew crew
Cut cut cut
Dare dared dared
Deal dole dealt
Dig dug dug
Dive dove dived
Do done done (or did)
Drag drug dragged
Draw drawed[4] drawed (or drew)
Dream dreampt dreampt
Drink drank (or drunk) drank
Drive drove drove
Drown drownded drownded
Eat et (or eat) ate
Fall fell (or fallen) fell
Feed fed fed
Feel felt felt
  1. Burned, with a distinct d-sound, is almost unknown in American. See p. 201.
  2. Not used.
  3. Cotched is heard only in the South, and mainly among the negroes. Catch, of course, is always pronounced ketch.
  4. But "I drew three jacks," in poker.