Even "chidden" sometimes appears. "Chide" isn't common -- I probably
hear it more frequently used as a joke than otherwise (it's a light poem
anyway, full of puns), but it doesn't seem particularly rare to my ear.
The American south is fairly conservative linguistically as well as in
other ways, and I was raised, in large part, by my grandmother,
great-aunt, and great-grandmother, so my ear may not be typical.
I just asked the wife I sleep with, who is from small-town Ohio, and it
doesn't seem odd to her.
On Wednesday, July 18, 2001, at 07:37 PM, Wystan Curnow (FOA ENG) wrote:
> i'm curious: is the word 'chide' in your /the common parlance? in my
> dialect area it's marginal.
> your wife
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Snider [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, 18 July 2001 5:21 p.m.
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Another sonnet ...
>
>
> That's exactly what my wife said ...
> On Wednesday, July 18, 2001, at 01:13 AM, Wystan Curnow (FOA ENG) wrote:
>
>> Michael, i see you are incorrigible. not another sonnet, you naughty
>> boy:
>> stop it NOW! before i give you a good chiding. And why does it always
>> have
>> to be me that puts the clothes away? You poets are all the same, lying
>> around in bed, thinking about sex when there's housework to be done,
>> and
>> then prentending it's all for the sake of another sonnet.
>> wystan
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