Karen sn Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 I believe that drowned and drownded are both correct, although use of the latter is waning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoggirl Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 "drownded" is incorrect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LN in WI Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 "We hear occasionally from the lips of the uneducated drownded as the past tense of drown, itself frequently pronounced by the same persons as drownd. We properly consider its use as an evidence of illiteracy." However, check out this interesting history of the word: http://books.google.com/books?id=2yJusP0vrdgC&pg=PA373&lpg=PA373&dq=drownded+dictionary&source=web&ots=nYsSjiDZY4&sig=usontqvbLcK_6ZAjRY4xC8z1ZXM&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=9&ct=result :) Ellen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michelle in MO Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 "drownded" is incorrect. Agreed. "The animal drowned in the lake" is correct, but "drownded" would be incorrect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicole M Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 Didn't Dickens used "drownded" as a play on "drowned dead"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Corin Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 I believe that drowned and drownded are both correct, although use of the latter is waning. Laura Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JudoMom Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 I say it's not a word :). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6packofun Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 It sounds incorrect to me and so, regardless of whether or not it's acceptable, it's not to me. LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaxMom Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 from "The Standard of Usage in English" by Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury, 1907 "We hear occasionally from the lips of the uneducated drownded as the past tense of drown, itself frequently pronounced by the same persons as drownd. We properly consider its use as an evidence of illiteracy." :lol: It has, evidently, not finished its waning in over a century. However, 102 years later, I still properly consider its use as an evidence of illiteracy. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lorna Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 Didn't Dickens used "drownded" as a play on "drowned dead"? Yes! I knew I'd read it recently. Mr Peggotty says it in David Copperfield Chapter 40 I'll tell you, Mas'r Davy,' he said, - 'wheer all I've been, and what-all we've heerd. I've been fur, and we've heerd little; but I'll tell you!' I rang the bell for something hot to drink. He would have nothing stronger than ale; and while it was being brought, and being warmed at the fire, he sat thinking. There was a fine, massive gravity in his face, I did not venture to disturb. 'When she was a child,' he said, lifting up his head soon after we were left alone, 'she used to talk to me a deal about the sea, and about them coasts where the sea got to be dark blue, and to lay a-shining and a-shining in the sun. I thowt, odd times, as her father being drownded made her think on it so much. I doen't know, you see, but maybe she believed - or hoped - he had drifted out to them parts, where the flowers is always a-blowing, and the country bright.' As Laura says, it is dialect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michelle in MO Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 I thowt, odd times, as her father being drownded made her think on it so much. I doen't know, you see, but maybe she believed - or hoped - he had drifted out to them parts, where the flowers is always a-blowing, and the country bright.' As Laura says, it is dialect. but I would say it's still grammatically incorrect. Mark Twain made frequent use of dialect in his writing, although it was grammatically incorrect. Does that make sense? We often see this in literature, and it captures the flavor and color of the local speech, but it still would not be grammatically correct. Hope this makes sense. Just my .02 worth! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicole M Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 but I would say it's still grammatically incorrect. Mark Twain made frequent use of dialect in his writing, although it was grammatically incorrect. Does that make sense? We often see this in literature, and it captures the flavor and color of the local speech, but it still would not be grammatically correct. Hope this makes sense. Just my .02 worth! Who cares! If you're using an incorrect form in an informed manner, for punch or color or whatever - go for it! If you're writing a formal essay, best stick with "drowned." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lionfamily1999 Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 Who cares! If you're using an incorrect form in an informed manner, for punch or color or whatever - go for it! If you're writing a formal essay, best stick with "drowned." Time and place ;) I couldn't use it, because I would crack myself up, but as color, in the right time and place, sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicole M Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 Time and place ;) I couldn't use it, because I would crack myself up, but as color, in the right time and place, sure. I would crack up, too. This reminds me of our running Dickens joke here, from that recurring line in David Copperfield, "Barkis is willing." One day my husband called, and was frantic, in a hurry, and said only to my son, who answered the phone, "Put your mother on the line." My son blinked, and holding the phone to his chest said in a stage whisper, "Sounds like Barkis changed his mind," and then handed me the phone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lionfamily1999 Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karen sn Posted January 29, 2009 Author Share Posted January 29, 2009 :lol:.......I still properly consider its use as an evidence of illiteracy. :D I highly doubt that Samuel Clemmons was illiterate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michelle in MO Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 Who cares! If you're using an incorrect form in an informed manner, for punch or color or whatever - go for it! If you're writing a formal essay, best stick with "drowned." ITA! Mark Twain and Dickens just wouldn't read the same if they used the King's English! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suzanne in ABQ Posted January 30, 2009 Share Posted January 30, 2009 What word, "drownded"? I've never in my life heard that used as a word. That's what I'd say. It's probably not very nice, but that's the first thing that popped into my head. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pamela H in Texas Posted January 30, 2009 Share Posted January 30, 2009 I wouldn't expect to hear it from anyone except a 3yo (many tend to put a pronounced "ed" sound on the end of many verbs) or a fairly uneducated or hick-ish person. I think my ds said it for a short time. I'm sure I corrected him EVERY time. LOL (I also, after TEN years, got my hubby to quit saying BRUNG!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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