"Controversy" usually concerning a matter of conflicting opinion or point of view.

Children make many mistakes when they learn language. What parent hasn’t heard ‘goed’ for ‘went’ or ‘eated’ for ‘ate’? It’s hard not to listen to a three year old without hearing errors of other types as well-‘scissor it’ for ‘cut it,’ ‘let’s broom the floor’ for ‘let’s sweep the floor,’ ‘Can you needle it?’ for ‘Can you sew it?,’ and so on. Mistakes like these mean just one thing - children are doing what they are supposed to be doing; they are discovering the rules of English. We adults may not say ‘goed’ or ‘eated,’ but adding ‘-ed’ to a verb IS the basic way to form the past tense in English. Most verbs work that way, and any new verb that enters the language has to form its past tense with ‘-ed’-that’s why the
past tense of ‘blog’ has to be ‘blogged.’ Figuring out the rule is a prelude to figuring out the exceptions. The same goes for other mistakes children make. Maybe we don’t scissor things, but we do sometimes hammer them. And maybe we don’t broom floors, but we do mop them. English allows many words that refer to objects
(like hammer and mop) to be converted into words that refer to actions involving those objects. A child who says ‘Scissor it’ or ‘Let’s broom the floor’ has started to figure this out, and that’s a good thing. Mistakes don’t disappear overnight. It may take several hundred exposures to the right past tense form of a verb before all the errors are eliminated. Immature forms may pop up for months or even years before they are finally laid to rest, but there’s no reason for concern. Mistakes arise as a normal part of the language acquisition process, and they’ll disappear as a
normal part of that same process.