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<\/a>Inputted<\/p><\/div>\n
\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u0153you have inputted\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Surely that’s not right?!<\/p>\n In my mind, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcinput’ is a variation of the verb \u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcto put’ and the past tense of put is put, so the past tense of input should be input.<\/p>\n So similarly<\/p>\n By contrast, the golfing verb \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcto putt’ is a completely different word and it’s past tense is \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcputted’.<\/p>\n To say that something was inputted just sounds weird.<\/p>\n Apparently though, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, both input and inputted are acceptable past participles of the verb \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcto input’. Mind you, I don’t really care what the OED says, if both are acceptable why use the ugly, weird sounding one when you could just the one that sounds right \u00e2\u20ac\u0153you have input an incorrect password\u00e2\u20ac\u009d would be nicer. Or better still, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Sorry, you’ve entered an incorrect password\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/p>\n Mind you, better than all of these would be to stop making me change my password every 5 minutes so that I enter the correct password in the first place!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Is it just me, or does this annoy you as well: \u00a0 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153you have inputted\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Surely that’s not right?! In my mind, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcinput’ is a variation of the verb \u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcto put’ and the past tense of put is put, so the past tense of input should be input. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I shall put my foot in it...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1312,"featured_media":22031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n\n
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