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Post by Geoff on Mar 18, 2009 9:40:00 GMT
Someone sent me the following joke today: An Irishman applied for a job working with the local blacksmith.
“Have you ever shoed horses?” the blacksmith asked him.
“No,” replied the Irishman, “but I did tell a donkey to f... off once.” Tell me there's no such word as shoed. |
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Post by Dave on Mar 18, 2009 15:06:36 GMT
It's in my Webster's along with shod as a past tense of the verb form. Of course, the joke wouldn't make any sense with shod!
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Post by Geoff on Mar 18, 2009 20:54:38 GMT
Dave,
The Macquarie Dictionary appears to recognise only shod as the past tense and past participle of the verb shoe.
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Post by Twoddle on Mar 18, 2009 21:54:19 GMT
My Chambers has both versions, but I've neither heard nor read "shoed" before.
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Post by SusanB on Mar 18, 2009 22:14:39 GMT
"Shoed" doesn't worry me at all - I may not even have noticed, if it hadn't been pointed out. ("Shod" doesn't bother me either, of course!)
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Post by Sue M-V on Mar 19, 2009 0:03:04 GMT
"Shoed" looks and sounds perfectly reasonable to me - not to be confused with "shod" or "shooed"!
Sue
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Post by Dave on Mar 19, 2009 2:48:46 GMT
I think we're more inclined to use shoed in the sense of shoeing (putting a horseshoe on a horse) that the joke uses than with our own shoes.
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Post by Tone on Mar 30, 2009 20:24:08 GMT
The SOED gives it as an adjective,
shoed a. E17. Provided or protected with a shoe or shoes; shod.
but only "shod" in relation to the verb.
Tone
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