Randi's Spelling Post, found on another board

[cassiesmom]

Catty1, is WOKEN a word? As in, "my niece was so glad when the school year ended because she did not have to be woken by either her father or the alarm clock"? I thought the word was awakened, When I worked 11-7 there was a nurse who would chart (if she had to wake the patient for something on her shift) that the patient "went quickly back to sleep after woken". That used to bug me to no end!

[vinjashira]

Catty1, is WOKEN a word? As in, "my niece was so glad when the school year ended because she did not have to be woken by either her father or the alarm clock"? I thought the word was awakened, When I worked 11-7 there was a nurse who would chart (if she had to wake the patient for something on her shift) that the patient "went quickly back to sleep after woken". That used to bug me to no end!

I believe it is

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/woken

[dukedogsmom]

You need to type out the link so it won't get more hits when on google, etc. Like using at for @.

[Rachel]

I thoroughly know the differences of all the words you have included here, but for some reason, as I age, the wrong ones keep popping out of me as I write. I'll come back to read something I have written and there is a glaring error. Oh, horror! Sometimes I'll be doing something entirely unrelated to writing (usually in the bathtub) and it will *come to me* that I've used a wrong word earlier in the day. This has happened enough not to be a one time thing. If I'm going to lose my faculties, the kinder thing would be for me not to recognize it.