{"id":16307,"date":"2006-04-15T19:42:05","date_gmt":"2006-04-16T02:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/neology\/2006\/04\/15\/frozeth.html"},"modified":"2006-04-15T19:42:05","modified_gmt":"2006-04-16T02:42:05","slug":"frozeth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2006\/04\/15\/frozeth\/","title":{"rendered":"frozeth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A <cite>USA Today<\/cite> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.usatoday.com\/maney\/2006\/04\/apple_and_xp_ha.html\">blog entry<\/a> from Kevin Maney, dated 5 April 2006, has the following headline:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Apple and XP: Has hell frozeth shut?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I'm wondering whether this was an intentional mangling of the more traditional \"Has hell frozen over?\", or whether the author just got confused.<\/p>\n<p>But either way, I suspect it's a good example of people's tendency to use \"-eth\" and \"-est\" endings without really understanding how they were used in older versions of English.<\/p>\n<p>\"-eth\" or \"-th\" was for the third person singular present tense.  \"-est\" was for the second-person singular.<\/p>\n<p>So: \"I freeze\"; \"thou freezest\"; \"he freezeth.\"  But: \"I froze\"; \"you froze\"; \"she froze\".<\/p>\n<p>\"Frozeth\" just plain isn't a word.  And \"<a href=\"http:\/\/math.boisestate.edu\/GaS\/pirates\/web_op\/pirates18d.html\">more than that, it never was one!<\/a>\" (he paraphrased randomly).<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A USA Today blog entry from Kevin Maney, dated 5 April 2006, has the following headline: Apple and XP: Has hell frozeth shut? I&#8217;m wondering whether this was an intentional&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-usage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}