[I Ate] A 18 Inch Pepperoni Pizza

I find the oed note puzzling, because the oed2 (and oed3—there was no change) article gives the pronunciation of ate as “/eɪt/ /ɛt/ /iːt/” and also makes it clear that /eɪt/ is the older form, with /εt/ being. Mar 12, 2011"i ate it" is regarding the event on its own without considering any present relevance - even possibly those same acts of eating the curry, the cake and the polar bear. Nov 18, 2017in bre, ate is sometimes pronounced /et/, and the cambridge dictionary gives this pronunciation.

Even if ate is pronounced like eight, there may well be subtle differences. Feb 11, 2018there are many verbs that don't end in -ate that have corresponding nouns in -ation: Jun 14, 2022in our native language we have a word for saying that you can't eat something because you ate too much of it and now you don't like the taste of it (for some time).

I ate my lunch an hour ago. Dec 19, 2022what do you say when people ate the food you cooked until nothing is left? Because 7 ate 9.— gina d'amato, 9, milltown..

May 14, 20154 in several books and tv shows, there have been characters who say "et" instead of "ate" (as in, "i et dinner yesterday at 6:00").