User talk:Picklepang

I'm not familiar with this site, so I don't know where this will be posted. Anyway, today I happened to see the following sentence: The average length of time for staying in the hospital has virtually haft since the year 2000. Well, in this sentence, "haft" is clearly a substandad (vulgarization/corruption?) of "halved," but I had never seen it before. I was also surprised at the number of times it has been quoted (Google it) without any criticism. This makes me think that it is acceptable to many. I would be interested to see what others may think. Oh, while searching for a satisfactory explanation, I also learned that "haft" was once (hundreds of years ago) the spelling for "has," but that's a different story.