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"Ran under valgrind"

I wonder if this is correlated to whether people pronounce "valgrind" to rhyme with "grind" or to rhyme with "grinned". If the latter, there's no way you'd consider its obvious past tense to be "ground".

I pronounce it like it rhymes with the type of coffee, but would argue than since the d is a contraction of 'daemon', pluralising it as though it contained the word 'grind' is erroneous. Thus the plural would be 'valgrinded' with grind still pronounced like the coffee.

Of course, one could always argue that the verbing of nouns should be avoided.

Why on earth do you think that?

Valgegrunden.

I had 'valgrund' jump into my head, which is similar ;)

I wondered about that too, actually (after I've made the poll).

Isn't she a character in the Ring Cycle, along with Cgfried?

Both!

Since I've no idea what it means, I'll assume it's regular (particularly if it's a newly-coined word). I guess the problem in this case is that it's unknown (therefore generally assumed regular; I read a really interesting book about language which had some good examples of this once but unfortunately I can't remember which book it was) but also superficially similar to an existing irregular word. If it actually has anything to do with grinding then I'd go for the second option, and if it's not actually an English word (or is part of a dialect, even) then it could be anything depending on where it's from.

Stephen Pinker's The Language Instinct includes a discussion of this sort of thing (and is a really interesting book); was that the one you were thinking of?

It's a computer program, used to check other programs for memory handling bugs. The name often gets used as a verb e.g. "my program crashes"/"Have you tried valgrinding it?"

Can I cheat, please?

valgrind'ed or possibly VALGRINDed.

Dunno. That's by analogy with "My program worked once I chmod'ed the entire file system to be world-writable."

I say valgrinded, but I say valg-rind, not val-grind. I'm not sure why, I guess I see valgrinding as more like rinding than grinding. I've no idea what a Valg is though, it sounds vageuly Tolkieney, perhaps a Warg in some related tongue, :).

"memory leak"

"valgrinded", although I really had no clue until I read the comments above.

Not that I've encountered the software, but I'm somewhat inclined to go for the completely un-etymologically-justified "valgrinned" or "valgrined". Just for the hell of it, I suppose.