FactCheck: It turns out ‘sended’ is an actual word

Fourth Canvas, the Nigeria creative design agency that is currently enjoying tonnes of public goodwill for their work on the just concluded Ghanaian elections – designing the logos and graphic works that went with the Nana Akufo-Addo campaign – thinks it can toy with what we have come to know as correct grammar.

We are not sure if it has anything to do Mr Dalung’s recent embarrassing blunder but the people over at Fourth it would be cool to play with us with that tweet that claims sended is an actual word. So we checked.

Fact Check!

Fourth Canvas was right. sended is the past tense form of the word “scend”, an archaic variation of the word “send” used in relation to moving up against a surge of water.

 

scended

That’s according to the Oxford living dictionary.

sended

You’d think, as the graph shows, no one uses it anymore but then, the Urban Dictionary thinks “it’s a cuter way  of saying “sent”:

scended

 

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