This is one for the tumblr linguists once Lent is over.
My morphology prof today: "So why isn't the past tense of "tweet" "twat"?"
Only one of us had the heart to tell him that twat is already a word...
Then, "OHHHHHH. Gee, thanks guys. Well, maybe that is a case of homophony avoidance…"
It was pretty entertaining. The poor terp at the time was super
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