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Originally Posted by Worldwalker
An even worse abomination I've seen a couple of times recently -- in professional work, on the websites of media entities I've actually heard of -- is "wen't" as the past tense of "go". W. T. F.?
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Again, as you said, they're thinking about it wrongly. "went" is a simple past participle of the verb "wend". It's entirely cognate with "spend/spent". English just happens to have appropriated this past participle for use with the verb "go".