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Just FYI, the past tense of "strike" is "struck", not "stroke". It could be argued that it should be "stroke" to parallel words like "break-broke" and "wake-woke" but it's not. English is weird. (And the past tense of "hike" is "hiked", not "huck" nor "hoke", which aren't words at all [UPDATE - turns out they are, see child comment from u/GrinningFool], but they probably should be.)


huck - to throw or toss; to launch oneself in the air

hoke - to give a contrived, falsely impressive, or hokey quality to


Well, whadyaknow. TIL.


Me too, for 'hoke'. For 'huck' I first encountered it watching Tucker and Dale, as in "he just hucked himself in the wood chipper!"


Or they meant this def'n of stroke:

> a mark made by drawing a pen, pencil, or paintbrush in one direction across paper or canvas.


Yes, but that's a noun, not a verb.

The word "stroke" can be a verb, but its meaning (to rub lightly) doesn't make any sense in context.


Well, IIRC I just tapped whatever autocomplete suggested :)


Even more confusingly, if it is past participle usage, it's "stricken"

e.g. "Strike it off", "I struck it off", "It was stricken off"

same with drive/drove/driven

One of those fun things for ESL folks I am sure.


“Struck” is the general past participle of “strike", “stricken” is a past participle available specifically for the sense of removing from a list (but the general form “struck” is also correct and often used for that sense, too.)


It's not that narrow - e.g. "was stricken by a sense of foreboding"

You also would say panic-stricken, not panic-struck.

Agree it's not universal though, helpfully, and sometimes is it "struck" in non adjectival past participle.

But not in the OP case, I think (much like striking off a list, striking off a sign). I probably should have mentioned that it wasn't universal for struck though.

I could just have confused things.




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