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Grow, grew, grown
View, viewed, vewn
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It's view, viewed, viewed actually, the fact that past tense gets "ed" ending means it's not irregular:P
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1. It was a joke
2. That's not always true, hew, hewed, hewn
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So I was looking more into this, and almost all of the forms with "ed" past tense and an irregular past participle end with a w.

Hew, mow, saw, sew, show, sow, strew etc.

And further if you search ngrams for "viewn" you actually get results.
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Meaning some people are actually using this whacky form. I had intended it as a joke of course - but I think others are using this weird "it ends in a w, so it's irregular" rule for more verbs than they should.
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Thing is, those became verbs from adjectives during the second making of the modern English, before 70s you'd have those verbs be regular, then they became irregular with past being "ed" then past participle changing from "ed" to what the adjective version is like, creating a whole mindfuck lol but yup, kinda interesting topic even if it was a joke:P
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What? You kind of lost me. What happened in the 70s?
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In 60s-70s the whole Webster organization pushed for some changes in the language to modernize it further since many words had falled out of use so they changed them. Verbs like that were just collateral is all. Nothing major happened, just some slang stuff became standard while standard became slang, language changes depending on the use after all
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It's like how new words keep getting changed from slang to proper language (for example "selfie" since about 7 years ago is considered an actual word instead of slang) and so on, things change according to how people use them, reason why "feminism" almost changed meanings in the dictionary when the SJW shit was going on last year but died down so avoided having the definition change.
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