Do you say "Dove" or "Dived"?

[DennisW]

Walter, you beat me to it.

There was another thread about this dived, dove thing somewhere. If not on this board, on another. If I remember right, some poet made up the word dove and it stuck. So, originally, the word would have been dived. I use both.

 

[lord1234]

who woke up the grammAr police?

 

[Walter]

It was Whitman.

 

[Walter]

who woke up the grammAr police?

No police, folks are merely responding to a question. You can ignore it, if you'd like.

 

[Chebby]

...and spelling.

Actually, it's nothing like "you're" and "your," as they have totally different meanings...

Walter, you beat me to it.

Oh piss off you pedantic b......s!



(watch the link I posted to get the jk)

 

[Jamdiver]

Well I can be pretty anal when it comes to English and its usage.
I'm forever correcting my little brother about using double negatives in sentences.

Having said that I tend to use 'dove' when I speak about a previous dive in a general sense. "We dove at Yow's yesterday".
While if i'm describing a dive and maybe the conditions, like i'm telling a story.
I'll use dived...

Isn't english weird?:06:

 

[DennisW]

I'm not anal about grammar. Neither is Walter. We just have a different sense of humour than some people and point out things that strike us as, let us say, interesting. Call us pedantic if you wish, grammar is important. Even for an engineer like me.

However, I am not a b----d, if you ever see a picture of my father and me, you will never doubt my heritage.

 

[The Kraken]

Present tense = dive
Past tense = dived "or" dove
Past participle = dived

 

[Chebby]

DenisW, how do you know i didn't mean you and Walter were "brothers"?

Anyway, I apologize if that was offensive to you. I guess I have a different sense of humour than you indeed.

Sometimes I wish people would stop being so serious all the time...

 

[H2Andy]

a big one is "its" and "it's"

the dog loved its bone but it's gone now

and "effect" and "affect"

the effect of the ice age was to affect all life on earth