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Guest  +  2880 Tue, 29 Jul 03 08:38 PM
Is "birthed" an actual word?
Woodward  +  2884 Tue, 29 Jul 03 08:44 PM
No, not to my knowledge.
Maybe they are trying to say 'Born'
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hitchhiker  +  2885 Tue, 29 Jul 03 08:46 PM
It might have been used in the middle ages, but that's just a guess on my part.
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Woodward  +  2886 Tue, 29 Jul 03 08:52 PM
I've just discovered that sometimes in the Southern U.S. they say:
birthed, birthing (tr.verb)
though it sounds terrible to me!
YoHf, 3 yr 214 days ago

It's unlikely to be used in the UK... Stick out tongue [:P]

Himmelsstuermer, 2 yr 111 days ago

I can't "birthed". Myself is known among born.

Anonymous, 1 yr 181 days ago

Spotted again today on Slashdot:

http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/08/01/04/1246246.shtml

[..]The idea, which was birthed at Microsoft Research[..]

Philip  +  461174 Sun, 06 Jan 08 03:48 PM

 Guest wrote:
Is "birthed" an actual word?
  It is, indeed.

American Heritage lists it as a transitive verb.  Without the verb, we wouldn't have one of the most famous lines from "Gone With the Wind", where Hattie McDaniel says, "I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' babies, Miss Scarlet".

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khoff  +  461309 Mon, 07 Jan 08 03:03 AM
Philip, you've got the right quote but the wrong actress/character.  Hattie McDaniel played Mammy, who probably knew plenty 'bout birthin' babies and was unlikely to become helpless in an emergency. The line you quoted was spoken by Prissy, played by Butterfly McQueen.
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