Re: ****rov's Sad Saga

<ttk5079@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
news:be3a9894-2c73-4fdc-b7b6-815cc6327cb4@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Apr 28, 1:10 pm, Jürgen R. <jurg...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> >The clock will soon have stricken 12 for chess journalists
> >without a command of the irregular verb forms.

>  I believe "stricken" is quite proper here. I've seen hundreds of TV
> and movie courtroom scenes where an attorney says "I move that
> statement be stricken from the record." By the same token, a rule may
> be stricken from the books.

Fowler: 'stricken' - this archaic p.p. of strike survives chiefly in
particular phrases, & especially in senses divorced from those
now usual with the verb; then gives examples: poverty-stricken,
etc.

However, it is possible that English and American usage
differ sufficiently to make 'stricken', as used in the
original quote, acceptable to many.