Last night I was watching one of those true-crime shows on Investigation: Discovery, and an investigator who was being interviewed got my attention by saying, "...the victim succame to his wounds."
Yes, succame: that would be the past tense of succumb. I'm equal parts delighted and horrified.
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It is? M-W Online doesn't have "succame." I always thought it was "succumbed."
Exactly. This guy apparently believes the word is a form of "come"? I kind of hope nobody ever tells him he's wrong.
Wow! That's like fingernails on a blackboard!
The descriptive linguist says: it's A-OK, as long as everyone knew what he meant (which we did)! The prescriptive grammarian is a blinking in confusion. :-)
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