Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social

"Costed" does have a pretty standard usage already in the sense of "estimated the cost of", as in "The accountants costed the project at $9 million."

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microsoft bing crosby @fritterary.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 17:58 UTC

But that's a different, and uncommon, sense. So different that it's basically a malapropism. By that logic, "This gum costed two dollars" makes as much sense as "this gum hydroxylated two dollars," since both misuse a technical term. It's nothing to do with the term of art. It's just drift.

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Melanie Baker @melle.ca [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 20:40 UTC

Yeah, my immediate thought was it was pretty common in corporate spheres and probably just escaped containment.

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Kitty Chandler @mightybattlecat.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 16:47 UTC

For some reason that makes sense to me, whereas "costed" used for "It cost X dollars" is just mildly annoying.

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@ethelmay.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 18:20 UTC

It's pretty common for the transitive and intransitive senses of a word to have different past tenses. Cf. "shine" in "they shined shoes" or "the light shone"

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