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Back in the saddle again
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Central TX west of Houston
Posts: 56,814
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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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It's been 200 years, give it a rest!  
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Dived is the traditional past tense and past participle of the verb dive. But the newer dove, which probably came about by analogy with similar words like drove and wove, has been in the language approximately two centuries and is now standard in American and Canadian English.
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'08 Boxster RS60 Spyder #0099/1960
- never named a car before, but this is Charlotte.
'88 targa  SOLD 2004 - gone but not forgotten
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