Is it Dove or Dived
 

Okay another one for you, this was Fred Sireaux' s daughter speaking after coming 6th in the solo diving, she said the other competitors dove better than her, would that be dove or dived, I think I would have said dived in that instance...lets see what TiBB says


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Maybe Dove is the plural as there were multiple dives..:think:

hmmmmm I would definitely say Dived in that context but if I was talking about someone diving in soccer I'd say they dove

Now I'm really confused and questioning everything

…both/either are correct, I would say…just really dependent on what feels the more pleasantly flowing one for each person…

…is it octopuses or octopi…

…:laugh:…but then there are all those groups of puss people who think they’re an octopus…


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…maybe those ones are octopuses, maybe both descriptions are correct…hmmmmm…

Dived: This is the traditional past tense and past participle of “dive.” It has been standard in British English for a long time.

Dove: The use of “dove” as the past tense of “dive” began in the 1800s and is now standard in American English.

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If we didn't have the internet, our language would still be pure :laugh:

Get you.... down with American slang and all that nonsense

i used microsoft copilot :laugh:

That reminds me of "gotten" apparently it's not used in Britain but it's used in America and Ireland (since before the internet too :p )

The one that gets me is ‘hanged’ when somebody died via suspension from rope. I know it’s that, but it never sounds right. Why is it not ‘hung’. :fist:

I would still say hung :hee:

my current peave is the american use of normalcy to describe normality, it really triggers me

…does it depend on the context, hmmmmm…like ‘hanged’ being specifically in relation to someone being hanged as a form of execution…

Yeah, it's only in that context i think

I don't hear that one a lot, definitely normality there though

…hanged would be future tense as well …(…in a context of execution/hanging…)…didn’t the judge always say…you will be hanged by the neck until dead…so future../…you will be hanged…?..and also past tense because then you were hanged, the judge was correct…?..

…language is quite confusing, actually…

in the time of good old henry the 8th, people were hung, drawn and quartered, not hanged :laugh:

And this is all English and you lot have the cheek to talk about Irish language being messy(well not you personally but you know) Irish actually makes more sense once you know the rules :hee:

…I’m not sure in different areas of Ireland but some words/things would differ hugely here in their meaning with dialects as well…

I mean the actual Irish language though not dialects

…texted is a strange/odd word, I always think…I know that it is right but it never feels quite right to say ‘I texted Insert name’….