-'d

See also: Appendix:Variations of "d"

English

Suffix

-'d

1. (archaic or poetic) -ed.
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 24”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:

     Mine eye hath play'd the painter and hath steeld

   • 1880, William Topaz McGonagall, The Tay Bridge Disaster:

     But when the train came near to Wormit Bay,
     Boreas he did loud and angry bray,
     And shook the central girders of the Bridge of Tay
     On the last Sabbath day of 1879,
     Which will be remember'd for a very long time.

2. Sometimes used to form the past tense of some awkward verbs that are in the form of numerals, letters, and abbreviations, especially in online communication. Compare -’s.

   Google Plus - You +1'd this.

   I just lol'd but then stopped and realized this wasn't funny.

   That guy just got KO'd!

   • 2008, Douglas Crockford, JavaScript: The Good Parts:

     The eval function also compromises the security of your application, because it grants too much authority to the eval'd text.

Usage notes

• In the Early Modern English (1500-1700) period, -ed was usually pronounced as a full syllable (/ɪd/, /ɛd/, /ed/) in all contexts. Today, this is only conserved in verbs ending in /t/ (such as dated), verbs ending in /d/ (such as shaded), and in certain adjectives (learned, blessed). The contracted form with the silent e, now familiar to modern speakers, was then considered somewhat improper and indicated using the -'d suffix. Eventually, this pronunciation became dominant and the archaic pronunciation with the non-silent e is now indicated using -èd.

Derived terms

English terms suffixed with -'d

See also

• 'd