Speaking of that, when the heck did people start saying “he lighted a cigarette” instead of “he lit a cigarette”? I feel like someone changed the rules on me while I was asleep one night.
Apparently, “dove” as the past tense of dive has been around for at least two centuries, but only in US and Canadian usage. Who would have ever thought that we use the language differently?
I was taught that it is dive, dived, and dived. Dove wasn’t proper. But I just checked my dictionary, and dove is part of dive. Maybe my teacher was mistaken. I waited all these years to actually look it up. This screws everything up. What else do I think I know, but don’t?
RE: Canadian and US words usage. I watch a LOT of H>V programs and a great many are Canadian, which I welcome! Canadians use a lot of British words that we do not. Even many of their houses look a lot like UK homes. PS: Whatever happened to Lynette Jennings? She had a great decorating program.
Canadians tend to say someone is “in hospital” and in the States they tend to say someone is “in the hospital”. Potato…. Potatoe….Where’s Dan Quail when you need him?
jazzmoose about 10 years ago
Speaking of that, when the heck did people start saying “he lighted a cigarette” instead of “he lit a cigarette”? I feel like someone changed the rules on me while I was asleep one night.
Agent54 about 10 years ago
Dove is a word – at the least it is a bird. Misused perhaps or not.
cdward about 10 years ago
Apparently, “dove” as the past tense of dive has been around for at least two centuries, but only in US and Canadian usage. Who would have ever thought that we use the language differently?
Purple-Stater Premium Member about 10 years ago
Just in the last year I’ve noticed the newspaper and TV news saying “pleaded” instead of “pled”. Drives me bonkers; “pleaded” just sounds dumb.
e.groves about 10 years ago
I was taught that it is dive, dived, and dived. Dove wasn’t proper. But I just checked my dictionary, and dove is part of dive. Maybe my teacher was mistaken. I waited all these years to actually look it up. This screws everything up. What else do I think I know, but don’t?
jesturgill about 10 years ago
The old forms of verbs are changing. Swim swam swum, when did you hear swum used lately.
ChessPirate about 10 years ago
Maybe he smelt something…
dirgis3 about 10 years ago
RE: Canadian and US words usage. I watch a LOT of H>V programs and a great many are Canadian, which I welcome! Canadians use a lot of British words that we do not. Even many of their houses look a lot like UK homes. PS: Whatever happened to Lynette Jennings? She had a great decorating program.
Egrayjames about 10 years ago
Canadians tend to say someone is “in hospital” and in the States they tend to say someone is “in the hospital”. Potato…. Potatoe….Where’s Dan Quail when you need him?