Ok flashbunny what's yoour opinion of the following :
The news always says someone "pleaded" guilty - shouldn't it be they "plead" guilty -
Ugh!!! You actually nailed my least favorit 'pressism'.
For the longest time they used to say "the suspect plead guilty"...and all of a sudden, every tv or radio station started using "pleaded"...
It's the groupthink mentality at work...Just like if one reporter starts pronouncing a place in the middle east one way, everyone else will stop using the original pronounciation and use the 'new and improved' version.
Bah!!! I'm turning into a grumpy old man, and it's all the media's fault!!!!