Re: Questions about "guix pull"

[Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>]

On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 06:25:33PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> skribis:
> 
> > Small typo:
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 10:17:45PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> >>   Any user can update their Guix copy using @command{guix pull}, and the
> >>   effect is limited to the user who run @command{guix pull}.  For
> >
> > "the user who run_s_"
> 
> US spelling of the preterit of “run”, I think.  :-)

I've never heard the word "preterit" before, so I looked it up on
Wikipedia, and this example was offered:

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A number of English verbs form their preterites irregularly, a result of
either Ablaut, a regular set of sound changes (to an interior vowel) in
the conjugation of a strong verb, or because the verb conjugations are
the remains of a more complex system of tenses in irregular verbs:

[...]

* He ran to the store. (Preterite of "run".)

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