Talk:waked

According to Garner's Modern American Usage,

   "The following are the preferred declensions:
   wake > woke > waked (or woken)
   awake > awoke > awaked (or awoken)
   awaken > awakened > awakened
   wake up > woke up > waked up
   ...For the past participle, AmE prefers waked; BrE prefers woken."

In his list of irregular verbs, however, he has the order reversed with "wake woke woken (or waked)".

From The American Heritage Dictionary, "Regional American dialects vary in the way that certain verbs form their principal parts. Northern dialects seem to favor forms that change the internal vowel in the verb—hence dove for the past tense of dive, and woke for wake: They woke up with a start. Southern dialects, on the other hand, tend to prefer forms that add an –ed to form the past tense and the past participle of these same verbs: The children dived into the swimming hole. The baby waked up early."--BrettR 22:02, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

archaic

Should it be noted this is archaic? It's not used much anymore, you'd sound uneducated if you were to say "I waked up at dawn" instead of "I woke up at dawn", even though they're both technically correct it's an older word. I've seen it in Crime and Punishment instead of woke.

Actually, prescriptivists would say it should be: "I awoke at dawn." The verb "wake / waked" is originally transitive and takes an object. The transitive "waked" is still used colloquially, as in "He waked the baby," though the formal and usual form is "He woke the baby." --EncycloPetey 00:32, 24 December 2007 (UTC)