It is one of the least commonly used of modern irregular verbs and the past form ‘wed’ will soon be replaced with ‘wedded’. As he jokes, “Now is your last chance to be a ‘newly wed’.

Pattern B The verb swing, swung, swung replaces the i of the present with u in both the past and the past participle. At least 10 common English verbs follow this pattern. (Many of these, in their ...