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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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Another one is when the phrase "begs the question" is used to mean "raised the question." It's been used incorrectly so much that some grammarians say it is acceptable.