It's "knew English" not "new English". "Knew" and "new" are 'homophones'. They are both English words and are pronounced the same. A good lesson in the trickier parts of English! There is a pattern here: Present tense Past tense "know" "knew" "blow" "blew" "throw" "threw" but these " ---ow" words don't follow it: "mow" "follow" "sow" [which has two different meanings, one of which is pronounced like "how" or "bow" (which also has two different meanings!!) ]. Wow! Why can't we all just learn Loglan?