DIVED or DOVE? Lets decide once and for all ...

[Bob DBF]

Depends on which one sounds best for me in the sentance at hand.



Bob

 

[3D diver]

Sank...

 

[Chugwhump]

?...Diven?

WOO-HOO!!!
New word!
Thanks Bratface

It's dived; a dove is a bird.

So is a diver.

Dove is a heteronym.
iPhone. iTypo. iApologize.

Have we already descended/progressed to the the name calling based upon the orientation of the subject matter part of the discussion?

Sank...

Like it!!

Chug
Refuses to diagram sentences and dissect homonyms for birds no matter how much they beg.

 

[Bill Parker]

I'm going to go diving and not care about what I call it after the fact.

 

[Diver0001]

I am surprised that there is no world wide consensus on this. Let us decide here once and for all which of the two words diving community agrees with. Here is a poll ...

DIVED or DOVE

Let the voting begin.

Grammatically they are both correct. "Dived" is an older form of the verb but "Dove" has been in common use in English for round-about 200 years. Both forms originated in England so arguments that one form is "English" and the other is "American" is incorrect although "dove" appears more commonly in North America, probably as an analogy to the past participles of verbs like "drive" (drove) and "ride" (rode)

R..

 

[NAM001]

Dove vs. dived

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.
According to this ngram, which graphs occurrence of the phrases he dived and he dove in a large number of American books and periodicals published from 1850 to 2000, dove has recently overtaken dived in American writing:


I found this on the net. There is no answer I guess... I think I use dove because I dove we dove. it doesn't sound right when I say I dived we dived. I also see dive as being present and dived is past tense. cant do that with the word dove also. I also see the mixed use of the words like with the verb do.

I do you do we do he she or it does
or I am your are he she or it is.



then there is 1st 2nd 3rd person singular. dived then plural would be they dove.

In the world of those that speek webe who knows what is being taught or what is right.

I be
u be
he she or it be
we be


When the past meets the present and is spoken by those that can not add and subtract with out more fingers,,,, this is what you get. We all fall victom to it one way or another.

 

[TMHeimer]

Dived is the past tense of a scuba dive.
Dove is the past tense of diving-- like off a diving board into a pool.
Polls, dictionary definitions and other peoples' opinions matter not. I am right. Period.

 

[Balanus]

I'm from the UK. I never hear people talking about having dove. I and most others over here I think use dived for the past tense.

 

[Chugwhump]

.........Polls, dictionary definitions and other peoples' opinions matter not. I am right. Period.

I accept your logic.
But only in Snowville, err, Canada.
We in 'Merica.....
Will speak in 'Merican!

Chug
Likes Canadian Bacon, and Canadian Whiskey.

 

[Centrals]

Dived, aluminium, colour etc etc.
I was taught this way.