Page 1 of What is the past tense of the word. . . . . . .

. . . . . .contra???


(I`m kind of referring to the spelling of the past tense here TBH - assuming that saying it in the past is genuinely allowable under English language law)

EDIT : contra`d perhaps??


YNWA
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"Clarkson you infantile pillock" - J May, Top Gear, 9/11/2008

This item was edited on Monday, 26th January 2009, 14:32

No, it`s a prefix and occasional noun (Contra rebels) not a verb. See here.

EDITED to de-twatify...

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This item was edited on Monday, 26th January 2009, 14:37

So when talking in an accounting sense and the client says

"we will contra what we owe them with what they owe us and pay them a cheque for the balance"

If I was to ask him a week later he should use a different past tense term to describe the transaction ie "we offset what we owed them . . . . . . "

Just in talking terms verbally you here "contra`d" as in past tense. I just came to write down the explanation given to me and suddenly realised that I woudlnt know how you spell it and then questioned whether it is actually a word




YNWA
A.C.C
"Clarkson you infantile pillock" - J May, Top Gear, 9/11/2008

It is an accounting term as well, at lease according to this.

So on the past tense of it you would think???

(you would have thought as an auditor / accountant this may have being a topic of conversation in my office sometime earlier in the last 7 and a half years really!!!)


YNWA
A.C.C
"Clarkson you infantile pillock" - J May, Top Gear, 9/11/2008

Quote:
twatify.
Someone phone the OED that definitely needs to go in.

Snaps

In accountancy is it not still a contraction of contra-something?

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Apparently not.

You wouldn`t write contra`d either though, would you?
Surely the apostrophe is used to indicate missing letters.
But there aren`t any.
So it would be contrad. :/

Bloody accountants.

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