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To: drjimmy

""Lighted" is a correct usage."

Maybe in some bizarro world where dogs and cats lie down together, but dangit, it should be lit!

Webster's doesn't even have lighted listed - now I wish I had the OED available.


43 posted on 11/11/2004 1:05:18 PM PST by flashbunny (Every thought that enters my head requires its own vanity thread.)
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To: flashbunny
From the online AskOxford.com:
• verb (past lit; past part. lit or lighted) 1 provide with light. 2 ignite or be ignited.

From the online "Common Errors in English":
"Lighted/Lit: Don’t fret over the difference between these two words; they’re interchangeable."

There are other sources I've found that also give the two forms as interchangeable, but this should suffice for now.
71 posted on 11/11/2004 1:26:15 PM PST by drjimmy
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To: flashbunny
Lighted is correct.
72 posted on 11/11/2004 1:26:51 PM PST by raybbr
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To: flashbunny
""Lighted" is a correct usage."

Maybe in some bizarro world where dogs and cats lie down together, but dangit, it should be lit!

NEVADA REVISED STATUTES: Chapter 475:

1. It is unlawful for any person willfully or negligently: (a) To throw or place any lighted cigarette, cigar, ashes, match or other material which may cause a fire in any place where such lighted cigarette, cigar, match, ashes or other material may start a fire.

(b) To throw or otherwise discard from a moving vehicle any lighted cigarette, cigar, ash or other material which may cause a fire.

100 posted on 11/11/2004 2:16:33 PM PST by wideminded
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