Dive Plane Quick Question

[propbeanie]

I usually use "dived" myself, but I am NOT an expert on grammar. However, the "Grammarist dot com has this:

"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. Outside North America, where dived still prevails by a large margin, some might consider dove wrong."

Just consider "dove" (I say that as "duv" - the bird... ) as another one of our "yankee-isms" left over from the Revolution, and another mangling of the King's Language, even thought there's a Queen on the throne at this time...

[torpedobait]

Originally Posted by propbeanie

I usually use "dived" myself, but I am NOT an expert on grammar. However, the "Grammarist dot com has this:

"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. Outside North America, where dived still prevails by a large margin, some might consider dove wrong."

Just consider "dove" (I say that as "duv" - the bird... ) as another one of our "yankee-isms" left over from the Revolution, and another mangling of the King's Language, even thought there's a Queen on the throne at this time...

Definitely the rebel in us Yanks. We also tend to "savor" our foods instead of savour, and use labor instead of labour, etc. Who was it who said we are "two nations separated by a common language"? Sounds like something Churchill might have said.

[Red Devil]

I asked an american lady about the language. I always thought it originated back in the wild west days and before, when people who could write, spelt things phonetically. But she said some guy called Webster was asked to standardise American. The spellings come from him. Either way, wrong!! Now I'll leave the 'center/centre' stage and go to the 'theater/theatre' .....