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Originally Posted by Charles Freeborn
And then there's incorrect word usage that got used so much it's become part of the language. The most annoying to me is the past tense of "to dive", which is dived not dove. As in "she dived into the pool".
A dove is a bird....
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Dove has been common usage in parts of the US and Canada for about two centuries. I don't really recall ever hearing anyone say dived.