@R Smith ... Then all the uses below are wrong? According to you, one cannot exaggerate too much since there are no degrees of exaggeration.

The Three Mile Island "disaster", for example, was a much-exaggerated description of a serious accident. — "Future Studies in the Academy", Academic Questions, Winter, 1995, Vol 9, Issue 1, p12

Researchers had long known that rat pups that don't receive as much licking and grooming-perhaps a rat mother's brand of affection-grow up to have more-exaggerated stress behavior than better-cared-for pups do. — "Nuture Takes the Spotlight", Science News, Jun, 2006, Vol. 169, Issue 25.

Let the bike come up further and further-exaggerate the motions of soaking up a bump. — "Skills: How to Catch Air", Nov, 2001, Vol 42, Issue 11, p22

For the perfect berry pout and not-tooexaggerated brow, … — "The New Easy Beauty", Oct, 1998, Vol. 191, Issue 6, p162

As our dinners settled comfortably, tales of dressing experiences were exchanged, each couple good-naturedly attempting to out-exaggerate the others. — "Splendors of the Orient-Express", USA Today Magazine, Jul, 1993, Vol 122, p 35.

Ron says his problem with Obama is the integrity thing. "He exaggerates too much," Ron says. "He's not honest." — "Full Metal McCain", Rolling Stone, Jun 26, 2008, p43

It's been that way since Old English:
mus > mys ... mouse > mice
lus > lys ... louse > lice
hus > hus ... plural for hus in OE was betokened by make the article plural. Once the article became fixed and no longer showed gender and number, then house was regularized by adding an 's'.

Computer mice wins in Google Books ... hands down: http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=computer+mouses%2C+computer+mice&year_start=1940&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3

@Gallitrot ... I'm not a subscriber to the OED so I can't see their whole unabridged wordbook ... I'v been told that it is about 20 volumes. But sometimes yu get a little gem like maegth/mægth ... http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/115332 ... If you type it the search box, it doesn't show. It's one that yu must know the entry number for.

I can understand why Old English/Anglo-Saxon words wouldn't show up in a desktop wordbook. The whole orthography of OE/AS is very different than nowadays English ... And if yu add in the changes in pronunciations from the early migration to the Late West Saxon dialects ... it becomes a true headache.

What I find disappointing is not only how many are hidden behind the subscription wall but that a search doesn't tell yu that. At last if the word stands behind the subscription wall at M-W, it asks yu to subscribe.

Likely, yu'll find more at wiktionary. It lists not only New English, but Middle English, and Old English words as well. It is still growing. Hardly a day goes by that I don't make at least one entry of some kind. Aside from wiktionary, there are other sources for OE and ME words.

Wiktionary isn't eath to browse but it does nicely break down into a lot categories ... Want to kno the be- words? Or the ge- words in English? Then look at the categories.

My cutoff is 1066 ... If a Latinate was in English before the Takeover, then I'm good with it. There aren't that many.

@Brus ... Changing a noun to verb used to require a prefix ... knave (n), beknave (v); friend (n), befriend (v) ... but now one can friend (v) someone on Facebook. I'm not sure if the opposite is defriend or unfriend.

But we see it in other ways. One can xerox something and then fedex it overnight. I'd only get a little bent out of shape if the meaning wasn't clear.

BTW: ... railroad (v) : 2 [ no obj. ] (usu. as noun railroading) travel or work on the railroads. (OED)

@Sabu ... If your coworker had said, "on Friday" or "last Friday", she would have been ok. But the two together "on last Friday" doesn't work.

@Brus: From the OED: Source verb [ with obj. ]
• obtain from a particular source: each type of coffee is sourced from one country.
• find out where (something) can be obtained: she was called upon to source a supply of carpet.

affectatious — pretentious, artificial, or doing something just for show.

"At the same time, American intellectual and artistic elites, … help create a sophisticated, if sometimes affectatious urban mentality." — The Hidden Handshake: National Identity and Europe in the Post-Communist World ... by Aleš Debeljak, p54 (2009)

Synonym: affected (#2)
OED:
affected |əˈfektid|
adjective
1 influenced or touched by an external factor: apply moist heat to the affected area.
2 artificial, pretentious, and designed to impress: the gesture appeared both affected and stagy.

Shorter and more eathly understood synonyms: fake, sham, feigned

@theone ... LMAO ... AT YOU! That was exactly my point but since you seem to lack middle school reading comprehension skills, I'll put it in wording that you might understand ...

DUH ... dudes ... like all words that end in 't' are not ... like different ... like the dude above me said ... you know ... I mean ... they like have -ed at the end ... uh ... like normal ones.

Maybe now you can understand what I wrote.

There are sundry words that I believe to be either truly of OE roots or a blend of OE and French/Latin but I can't prove it. For byspel, tally is said to be from French/Latin ... yet in OE we tal/tæl meaning number/a number of; talian meaning to count; and sundry kennings such as tælcræft meaning arithmetic.

@Ængelfolc ... etym frain for yu. Siker ... German sicher from OHG sichur ... is said to come from Latin securus. Is this right? No PIE root is given.

Yesterday I wanted something to so painted the house. Then I started to cut the grass but became interested in the flowerbed. I shouted to my girlfriend to come quickly. I pointed to the flower and waited to see her reaction but she treated me with contempt even after I insisted. The she fainted. But then she acted as if nothing had happened.

Look at all those verbs that end in 't' ... and get an 'ed' past tense.

M-W lists the past tense as texted.