Susan Welsh Mar 16, 2017:

@Sofia You've got a point, I didn't think of that. Makes the "grudge" Ngram useless for our purposes. However http://www.dictionary.com/browse/grudge?s=t gives "grudge" as a verb for both AE and BE, although the intransitive usage is called obsolete. It sounds strange to my ear, but that's FWIW.// Ah - if you put the word in past tense you can tell it's a verb. With this method, "grudged" falls from a high in about 1865 to almost nothing in 2000 in "English" (including AE, BE, and every other E).

Sofia Gutkin Mar 16, 2017:

Can the moderator please Stop culling all the entries? Not all of them were horrible personal attacks. I certainly don't understand why even Michael Marcoux' entry was hidden.

Sofia Gutkin Mar 16, 2017:

@Susan That was very interesting! Unfortunately, there is no way to isolate 'grudge' as a verb and 'grudge' as a noun on the graphs... or is there?

Ilan Rubin (X) Mar 16, 2017:

Not interchangeable in my view. You could find thousands of examples of people, including natives, writing 'there' instead of 'their' and vice versa. But that is still a mistake. One of my cousins in Glasgow still can't tell the difference 😃

Ellen Kraus Mar 15, 2017:

@Misha. were it not for the fact that the two Verbs grudge and begrudge are becoming increasingly interchangeable (I could Quote about two dozens of text examples from BE literature; besides, the same is asserted by the Grammarist ). and for the incorrect use of the def. and indef. article, I would say let bygones be bygones. That the latter was due to a regrettable oversight on my part, becomes clear when having a look at the link I posted in support of my translation. The asker would undoubtedly have detected it at once, apart from the fact that repeating the word "even" would have remedied things. However, what remains is the question why are such matters apt to trigger such an avalanche of discrimnation.

Susan Welsh Mar 15, 2017:

begrudge/grudge If you're interested, have a look at the Google Ngrams: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=begrudge&year_...

Sofia Gutkin Mar 15, 2017:

Perhaps... Perhaps it is worth saying here (since the previous question on KudoZ did not get the attention it deserved) that TO GRUDGE and TO BEGRUDGE does not sound the same to an English speaker. If I begrudge someone something, I am reluctant to give it to this person, but I have never heard grudge being used as a verb, even if, yes, it is listed online as a synonym for begrudge. 'To hold a grudge' or 'to have a grudge' is the typical way that this word is used. I would be happy to hear other people's opinions on this.