What’s wrong with Dave?
[QUOTE=TheLoadedDog]
What’s wrong with Dave?
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I’m sure there’s plenny of Daves who will insist there is nothing wrong with them wotsoever. However, we know they are wrong. Dave is synonymous with dysfunctionality and personality disorders.
[QUOTE=Mindfield]
Really? I encounter it so rarely, even among Brits.
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I use both spelt and dived as the norm. I thought “dove” was just plain wrong until I moved to America.
[QUOTE=Excalibre]
Um, no, he’s not. Wrought is an old past participle of work. Wright has only ever been, to my knowledge, a noun. So says both etymonline.com and that Stephen Pinker book (I don’t remember which of his it was, but I remember reading that bit.)
I thought he said work, wrought. Did I misread again? Oh well.
Work, worked.
Work that thang, baby. When you’re done it’ll be wrought.
Hmph.
[QUOTE=AHunter3]
I’m not going to live that down, am I?
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When Hal lives down sheep.