DIY qn: "he clad(ded)", "he has clad(ded)"?

I would use clad, however the Collins English Dictionary has:

But rarely used, and I feel the word is cumbersome.

And since your usage is that of a verb, it should be clad anyway.

Fredxx snipped-for-privacy@spam.invalid wrote in news:ubtj1t$1f2tq$ snipped-for-privacy@dont-email.me:

The regular form in both slots would be "cladded". But I share your preference for "clad". Nothing wrong with a verb conjugating irregularly :-)

Decidedly the latter. The other sounds soppy.

Same.

No idea.

In message snipped-for-privacy@mid.individual.net>, Tim Streater snipped-for-privacy@streater.me.uk> writes

'Cladded' sounds plain daft. Even my spoll chicker objects to it.

If a wall did not have cladding I might choose to clad it. .

John Rumm snipped-for-privacy@nowhere.null wrote in news:ubtmls$1gcf6$ snipped-for-privacy@dont-email.me:

Sure, but if you did this to a wall yesterday what did you do? And once you'd done it, what had you done? :-)

I would say I had clad it and I have clad it. I would also clad myself in fine clothes and the late 19th century warships were ironclad, not ironcladded.

Yesterday I clad it so that now it has cladding.

I saw an American description of a house where they spoke about 'sidings', is that their name for cladding?

Nothing wrong with that. And once you had cladded it, it would be cladded.

Also future tense or conditional. Not the same thing as past tense.

Yes. Clad in iron.

cladding, n. "the house had bronze cladding" clad, v. "the house was clad in bronze" cladded, adj. "the bronze-cladded house"

According to the OED the first two also apply to the use of the word for clothing, but the last dates from 1939 and only refers to the building usage, which is a 20th century development.

The cite for the latter is:

(I note there is also 'copper clad', being a type of PCB)

Theo

Yes.

clad.

the convention is that the past tense of any verb that ends in 'd' elides the 'ed'

I bid for the car I fed the dog I hid the stash I wed the bitch

Cladded, is possible ass an adjective, but seldom as a verb.

"Clad" is normally a word associated with clothing or dress.

To be using it in other situations, the reader may be faced with the conflation of some "act of dressing", with whatever process might actually be used to apply that finish.

There are likely to be better words for usage in other areas.

Paul

Also, as I pointed out elsewhere in this thread, the act of covering a wooden warship in iron to create an ironclad ship.

Its clad, at least in the UK. Remember the USA invented the word Destinat to mean arrived at your destination. Brian