Innovation number 324.

I found a new verb.

To concess.

It’s regular - I concessed, you will concess, we all can concess if we so choose.

But it could just as easily be irregular.

I concesed, with only one s in the past form, two in the present and three – why not – in the future.

According to the online Oxford English dictionary it’s an obsolete word only recorded in the late 1500s.

One of my favourite periods.

Elsewhere however, other people argue that the correct form is concede.

I won’t concess to that, and will happily argue the case that the two verbs have different meaning. 

Despite their shared origin from the noun concession.

A difference of finality for instance.

The degree of absoluteness.

And acceptance.

Hmm.

To dis-accept.

Now there’s an idea!

I wonder if it deserves a double s?

editors note - other innovations elsewhere