Editing Go (verb) (section)

===Development of a new preterite===
In Middle English, ''ēode'' evolved into ''ȝede'', ''yede'', and ''yode''. By the 15th century in southern [[England]], ''wende'' (''wend'') had become synonymous with ''go'', but its infinitive and present tense forms had ceased to be in frequent use. This was also true of the various ''ēode''-derived preterites of ''go'', thus a variant preterite of ''wend'' absorbed the function. After ''went'' became established as the preterite of ''go'', ''wend'' took on a new preterite, ''wended''. In [[Northern England English|Northern English]] and [[Scots language|Scots]], ''yede'' was ''gaed'', regularly formed by suffixing ''-ed'' to a variant of ''go''. Due to the influence of the region, southern English forms constitute the standard language of England, and so ''went'' is the standard English preterite. [[Earl Spencer (peerage)|Spencer]] used ''yede'' to mean ''go'' with ''yode'' as its preterite form but as dialect.