D. A. Wood
Joined: November 7, 2011
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on: Pled versus pleaded
The people should have pled guilty to this. I had some k...
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Now, we have to put up with mangled English like this: ...
on: “hack” in “hackathon”
Always go back to the roots. Follow Anglo-Saxon all the way ...
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More people who should have pled guilty to the gods of langu...
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Concerning: "More likely to be a modern construct to do wi...
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The Egyptian connection with that or those Greek words has t...
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I have visited the Embassy of New Zealand in Washington, D.C...
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Re: "Everyone deserves our best." I hope they pleaded not gu...
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Oh, there are place names here that were crafted by white pe...
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Aha, we have places here that were named by the Native Ameri...
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Re: "the Atlantic's waters are deep." Something that so m...
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Note that I wrote "North America" for a reason because anyth...
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A new TV commercial, written by the uneducated and the lazy,...
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"The waters of the Atlantic Ocean became his final resting ...
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Oh, I ought to mention: the response that I got from that TV...
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I have written to a TV station in Birmingham, Alabama, that ...
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"The headquarters of the British Commonwealth is in London, ...
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Most German words that are moden creations have been given "...
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Well, which is it ?? A news announcer on the CBS stati...
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Oh, dear. You mean "I love driving my Jaguar. She is a car...
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I said: "Most words in English that have a gender" Most no...
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I noticed this morning that I was using a spell-checker that...
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"It's true that some people will try to sound more intellige...
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That onethat you wrote, Angie's, is quite wordy and full of ...
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Great news on cable TV news in the U.S. this afternoon: ...
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Agent 99 never had another name besides "Agent 99". Also, I...
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Agent 86, Maxwell Smart, said to a group of agents of KAOS: ...
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"pleaded"... in both AmE and BrE and always the best choic...
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The words "surf" and "browse" are just as short as is "cruis...
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Wow, A reporter for NBC - TV news in the U.S.A. said thi...
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I am a son of American TV from the 1960s, especially. Wh...
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Now, I am reminded of a comedy routine in the "Get Smart" TV...
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Here is some good news about language from this morning: ...
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So many people are so passive nowadays, and they accept this...
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PLED, PLED, PLED! Four letters rather than seven, and one sy...
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OUCH: A typical date for Brus: He spent a lot of his mon...
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It occurred to me last night that some people do not know th...
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"Presumably, the Air Force has lots of jet packs." In ...
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"Aye, D.A., ye're fair going your dinger the nicht, as we sa...
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I don't guarantee that I got all of the endings on the Germa...
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Hello, I had realized that there was something awkward abo...
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LOL, when it comes to using "pleaded" instead of "pled". ...
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It is well-known among linguists and child psychologists th...
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I once knew a man from Indonesia who had lived in the United...
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Hello: "Lowbrow" has been one word for a long time, at l...
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Note: "able to fly". I left out a word. D.A.W....
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Tim, you are so right about "pled". However, when it come...
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Also, strong dialects of English in the U.S. died out during...
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Hello, "Why Bother", It sounds like you never have met man...
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That problem with speakers and writers, especially British o...
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I don't believe what Editirixrex said one bit. Also, it is b...
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Reply to lloyola: "I turned off the sitcom. If, however, I ...
May 29, 2012, 12:54pm • 0 vote
on: Pled versus pleaded
Why is that many writers, expecially ones who live in the lo...