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Narrator: Today's word is "stridden" — a verb form, pronounced /ˈstrɪd.ən/, with the stress on the first syllable.
Narrator: Stridden is the past participle of "stride" — to walk with long, confident, purposeful steps.
Narrator: In plain English, "have stridden" means to have walked boldly, with big, determined steps.
Narrator: The pattern is: stride today, strode yesterday, and have stridden by now.
Narrator: It comes from the Old English "strīdan", meaning to straddle or take long steps.
Narrator: "Stridden" is fairly rare and formal; many people aren't sure it even exists.
Narrator: You'd write "she had stridden across the room", though in speech people often say "strode" instead.
Narrator: In tone it's formal and literary, mostly found in careful, written English.
Narrator: So remember: stridden is the past participle of stride — to have walked boldly, in long, purposeful steps.
Speaker A: I wrote "she had stridden onto the stage", but it looked odd somehow.
Speaker B: It's correct, actually — "stridden" is the proper past participle of stride.
Speaker A: Right, so stride, strode, and have stridden. It just looks unusual.
Speaker B: Exactly. "By noon he had stridden ten miles" is perfectly proper.
Speaker A: I see. Most people just say "strode" and avoid it altogether.
Speaker B: True — "stridden" is rare, so it surprises the eye.
Speaker A: A common mistake is writing "had strode" instead of "had stridden".
Speaker B: Good catch — after "have" or "had", it must be "stridden".
Speaker A: Close forms? "Strode" is the simple past; "stridden" needs a helper verb.
Speaker B: And synonyms of the action — "marched" or "strutted" — sidestep the tricky form.
Speaker A: So "she had stridden in confidently" is right after all.
Speaker B: Spot on — rare, but perfectly correct English.
Speaker B: Let's use "stridden" to mean progress already made when you prompt AI for development.
Speaker A: So "stridden" frames how far the work has already come?
Speaker B: Exactly. For a status report, you'd write:
Prompt: Review my project and tell me how far we've stridden: list what's finished, what's in progress, and what remains, so I can see the big steps we've already taken.
Speaker B: The word "stridden" frames the request around real progress made.
Speaker A: Useful. What about a changelog?
Speaker B: Try this:
Prompt: Write a changelog showing how far this app has stridden since version one: the major steps forward, in plain language, so anyone can see the journey at a glance.
Speaker A: So the progress reads like a story.
Speaker B: Right. For a roadmap review:
Prompt: Compare my roadmap to what we've actually stridden through: mark each goal as done, started, or untouched, so I see clearly where the big steps still lie ahead.
Speaker A: I like measuring progress that way.
Speaker B: For onboarding a teammate:
Prompt: Summarise how far the codebase has stridden for a new developer: the key milestones reached and decisions made, so they grasp the journey before they jump in.
Speaker A: Could it set the next steps too?
Speaker B: Yes:
Prompt: Given how far we've stridden, suggest the next three sensible steps, in order, so we keep moving forward without repeating ground we've already covered.
Speaker A: So "stridden" means the progress already behind us.
Speaker B: Exactly — an elegant word for reviewing the journey so far.
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