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It is an interesting phenomenon, though, because (as far as I can tell), this is a new development--it's not a revival of an archaic form. Or, at least, I can't find anything that says such a form ever existed. Off the top of my head, I can't think of another -ag verb in which this vowel change occurs (and only hang-hung-hung as a parallel). Changing vowels in verbs is, of course, a very Germanic language thing to do, so it may just be a case of people imagining that this is what the correct form had to be, and gradually it became established. I can understand why it gets up people's noses, but in a hundred years' time, it may be in all the textbooks. :)
Oliver Schick
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So in some USA dialects, drag is an irregular verb. This is not a linguistic crime.