"The Chair" on Netflix: True or False?

[mamselle]

Yeah, I was thinking, like, "hide, hidden," so, "stride, stridden," you know?

I suppose I could check the OED...

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M.

[little bongo]

A quick internet check on conjugating the irregular verb "stride" reveals that both "strode" and "strided" work for simple past, but the past participle is indeed "stridden." Thus, to correct:

"...although I never strode the world like a colossus." Or, "I have never stridden the world like a colossus."

This probably at least partially explains why I have not done so.

[ergative]

From the OED entry on 'stride':

1829   J. Sterling Ess. & Tales (1848) I. 78   He would have stridden among them without belonging to either faction.
1899   J. Milne Romance of Pro-Consul ix. 89   The larger quarter-deck on to which Sir George Grey had stridden, much needed cleaning up.

But also:

1936   'R. West' Thinking Reed iii. 89   From youth he had strode through the twenty-four hours at the pace of a Marathon race.

And, for what it's worth:

c1275  (▸?a1200)    Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 8973   Þe leome gon striden a ueire seoue strengen. (but this might be a spelling of the -ing progressive form)

[apl68]

We're not even getting into the forms of bestride.

[ergative]

We're not even getting into the forms of bestride.

Yes, indeed. I'm quite fond of bestrodden for that verb.