Understanding McLuhan/Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso/pc/mcluhan.dxr/09015_Field_TCGG T780.txt

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strong verbs have resisted the pull of the regular pattern. . . .
As a matter of fact, during the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries there was a strong tendency to eliminate the
distinction of form between the past tense and the past
participle in all of these verbs . . .” (p. 61)

     Print had a levelling function on all verbal and social
forms, it had been said over and over again. And where print
has left some inflections unchanged, as in “who-whom,” there
yawns the great booby-trap of “correct grammar”—that is to
say, the abyss between visual and oral modes. The status of
these issues in the electronic age is sufficiently indicated in a
Time  (93) report from the British House of Lords:

          In debating the merits of a bill concerning the rights
     and liabilities of hotel proprietors, Britain’s House of Lords