Talk:ski

Did a major reform consisting of:

1. Rewriting definition of the noun. A ski is hardly footwear, the skiing boot attached to the ski is.
2. Rewriting the beautiful but narrow definition of the verb. To ski covers a wider range of activity than gliding downhill.
3. Removing the "rare but nonstandard" past tense ski'd
4. Adding a link to Wikipedia
5. Moving Pronunciation-header ahead of Noun-header Hekaheka 23:25, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

ski'd

I don't know if the past tense ski'd is rare, but it's certainly not nonstandard. Both of my two Oxford English dictionaries give ski'd as the only possible form. — This unsigned comment was added by 93.206.136.137 (talk).

Neither the electronic OED nor the online OED even mention the past tense of ski. Merriam-Webster and Oxford Dictionaries both give skied as the past tense. --WikiTiki89 01:34, 28 January 2014 (UTC)

They are old versions (60ies, 80ies respectively). So these forms are dated? — This unsigned comment was added by 93.206.175.84 (talk).

I'm pretty sure ski'd is just a colloquial spelling of skied. --WikiTiki89 00:02, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

Well, then why is it in these dictionaries? I only have the 80ies version here right now, it's not technically an Oxford English Dictionary, but the "Oxford Guide to the English Language", Oxford University Press, 1984, S. 12/13: [...] the final vowels -a, -i, -o and -u are unaffected by the addition of suffixes and do not themselves affect the suffixes. So: [examples]. Exceptions: idea'd (having ideas), past ski'd from ski (contrast skied from sky). It's in this book (and also the other one), as the only given spelling, and it's Oxford University Press... I'm not a native speaker, and I don't really care either, but if these references name it as the standard form, makes me wonder. — This unsigned comment was added by 93.206.175.84 (talk).

To tell you the truth, I don't know why. But it doesn't seem to be the case anywhere else I look. --WikiTiki89 04:59, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

Thanks anyway :)