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Wept Is the Past Tense of Weep — Here's Why You Keep Mishearing It as Slept
The simple past and past participle of weep are both wept. The hard part: wept, slept, swept, crept differ only in their first sound — exactly the part that tends to get swallowed.
The Wallaby18 min read
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The Past Tense of Sweep Is Swept — And Four Tightly Rhyming Words: Swept, Slept, Crept, Wept
The simple past and past participle of sweep are both swept. The hard part is four words that rhyme tightly, distinguished only by their initial consonant clusters — exactly the sound Vietnamese doesn't have.
The Wallaby18 min read