Past participles in the English language are normally simple enough for native speakers, but what about those awkward words? As eagle-eyed readers might already have guessed from the title of this blog post, I am thinking particularly of the word ‘rota’ here.

This word cropped up in the office recently as I was writing an e-mail and I suddenly discovered – I am not sure how to write this as a past participle. What is the past participle of rota? Should it be rota’d, rota’ed, rotad or something else? Continue reading →