“I always read it as the past tense of a verb. ‘Mome’ is in the place for an adjective.”
“Mm.”
“Oh, and in The Hunting of the Snark, ‘outgrabe’ is a verb: the Beaver ‘outgrabe in despair…’”
“That would do it.”
02 May 2012
Actual Conversation at My House
“I always read it as the past tense of a verb. ‘Mome’ is in the place for an adjective.”
“Mm.”
“Oh, and in The Hunting of the Snark, ‘outgrabe’ is a verb: the Beaver ‘outgrabe in despair…’”
“That would do it.”
I believe the present tense is "outgribe."
ReplyDeleteThat's what Humpty Dumpty would say. But then he says that words mean exactly what he says they mean.
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