2011年6月23日 · The form "flied" is used in baseball because the verb fly in this case means to hit a fly ball. It is probably safe to assume that this usage is a transformation of the noun fly ball (also called a fly) into a verb, and noun→verb transformations such as this are often regularized

Many people use "flied" to distinguish describing hitting the ball ("he flied out"; meaning someone caught his fly ball) from "he flew out," which would denote that he grew wings and left the stadium by air, though if people know you're talking about baseball, they'll probably understand what you …

I risk confusing the jadarnel with this aside, but a funny observation has been made that you actually attract more fruit flies with vinegar than honey, because the acetic acid in vinegar makes them think they sense fruit.

2011年4月28日 · I am not a native speaker of English. Could anyone please tell me which sentence is correct? If I had money, I would fly to Spain. If I had money, I would have flown to Spain.

@Spencer: The question is somewhat analogous to the question of how one should write the past tense of "fly" in the sentence "Yankees slugger Adam Bakersfield [verb] out to left field". If he ran quickly out to left field, the past tense should be "flew". If he hit a fly ball, it should be "flied".

2016年10月10日 · It means out of the office at various locations that can change from one day to the next. Since technicians out in the field usually will be at the site of a customer or en route to and from various locations there is no way to pinpoint where they all are at a point in time.

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@Kosmonaut There's nothing wrong with citing etymology. Your own link describes that many words are in fact derived from etymology. Even the "irregular" phrases like 'flied' vs 'flew' wouldn't be questioned by a native speaker hearing the etymological formulation. If it's unclear, then resorting to etymology is perfectly sound reasoning. –

you are comparing two words with similar suffixes, but the OP is asking about the same word (light) with and without an added prefix (high), by using backformation one could conclude that all words that derive from light (backlight, highlight, greenlight, moonlight) should follow the original word's conjugations (backlit, highlit, greenlit, moonlit), which makes it seem to me like one of …

2013年7月19日 · They do seem interchangeable but to me "expert in" implies doing knowledge rather than knowing knowledge. So "expert in kung fu" is clearly someone who practices kung fu, whereas an "expert on kung fu" implies he knows a lot of about kung fu, its history, etc.