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Which is correct: "troubleshooted" or "troubleshot"?
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susam
on Nov 8, 2023
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beardyw
on Nov 8, 2023
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Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but troubleshoot already has an object 'trouble'. If you are engaged in duckshooting you didn't duckshoot anything, you shot a duck. So it should be "I shot the trouble". Let me know how you get on with that.
rapnie
on Nov 8, 2023
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Or "dogfooded" versus "dogfed"?
aebtebeten
on Nov 8, 2023
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irregulars have a tendency to become regular if they fall out of frequent use
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