Timeline for Is "dare" as a modal obsolescent?
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| Jul 20, 2023 at 17:45 | comment | added | MarcInManhattan | I wouldn't necessarily call it a mistake; as you said, "dare" can act as a "regular" verb, too. And keep in mind that Google's ngrams have several limitations (e.g., being limited only to a particular corpus). But yes, I think that this at least shows that it does get used. | |
| Jul 20, 2023 at 15:58 | comment | added | Quack E. Duck | Wow, from your first chart it appears that the modal usage outnumbers the alternative by a factor of 4 to 1! It is also steeply trending upward, not downward, while the alternative is not, so it seems you have thoroughly debunked my hypothesis. I'm surprised to find the answer is so clear-cut, but at least I'm not the only person adding an "s" - if that's a mistake, it's one 25% of the literature also makes :D | |
| Jul 20, 2023 at 15:50 | vote | accept | Quack E. Duck | ||
| Jul 20, 2023 at 5:52 | history | answered | MarcInManhattan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |