What Happened to the Verbs?

Over the centuries, those old weak and strong distinctions have started to break down even further. And this process has created a lot of confusion in modern english. This confusion is what gives us dived and dove and strived and strove and hanged and hu. So let's examine what happened. What happened was linguistic confusion. People didn't know the history of the verbs. They didn't know verb was historically strong or weak. Sometimes speakers began to mix up the various forms. Take a word like dig. At one time, the past tense was actually digged. We only acquired the word dug in the 15 hundreds. Around the same time, words like spit and stick also acquired their