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 Is this yet another indication that I just need to accept that "sunk" is now acceptable as a simple past tense of "sink"? Has "sank" sunk?

What say you #editors? #usage

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 @787c481a I'd still change it if I were editing, but just a couple of days ago, I used "sunk" for "sank" when talking to Pat and then thought, "Wait, that's wrong." 

I went through the triplet in my mind — sink, sank, have sunk — and shrugged.