[SCA-Cooks] Cloved v. cloven

Morgan Cain morgancain at earthlink.net
Sun Nov 18 10:28:37 PST 2001


Just a reminder, "cloven" means "split, cut, divide" or otherwise denoting
that the item has been hacked into two or more pieces.  It's the past
participle of the verb "to cleave" (transitive).

If you're talking about something studded with cloves, then it is "cloved."

                             ---= Morgan, occasional pedant


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