Talk:crescendoes

Request for verification
third person sing. verb: sometimes crescendoes or only crescendos? (Google had some with the es but about 10 times as many with just s). RJFJR 17:16, 14 April 2009 (UTC)


 * I haven't checked Google (or elsewhere), but the stats you cite seem to answer your question: Both.—msh210 ℠  17:56, 22 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Are you sure that the hits you saw were for the third-person singular present active indicative form of the verb, and not for the plural of the noun? Suffixing to -terminal words is pretty common in English (e.g.,, ), but that’s not the case for the third-person singular forms, which are almost without exception formed by the suffixation of  (the exceptions are a few irregular verbs, like  and , and archaic forms which use ). As a verb form, * would either be the third-person singular form of a verb *undefined: or a non-standard third-person singular form of . (IMO, unless one uses the superior , undefined: makes more sense than  as the plural of undefined: because of its pronunciation, which ends in  rather than ; the conflation of the two pronunciations of -terminal words (the aforementioned  — usually singular — and , usually plural) is what leads to words like *undefined:, erroneously back-formed from the properly singular  — correctly pronounced  but often mispronounced .) †  ﴾(u):Raifʻhār (t):Doremítzwr﴿ 20:22, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

Cited at Citations:crescendo. —Ruakh TALK 18:04, 5 December 2009 (UTC)