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I keep reading in various articles that someone "pleaded guilty" or "pleaded not guilty." I've always thought it was "pled" when used in this manner.
Big* discussion at the weekly editorial meeting when I was a reporter and covered the courts. Pleaded is correct although it is often spoken as pled. Course the Word came from The Editor and one does not question The Editor.
(Why does Editor have a cap E?
For the same reason God has a cap G.)
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Pooh-Bah
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The noun is obviously implicit here, and can be understood from context. If so I have no problem with it. Is that what you meant Redryder?
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enthusiast
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I've always been taught to say 'dragged' and 'pleaded' here in the uk, with drug, pled, etc.. seen as colloquialisms or one of those things that really annoyed teachers in highschool.
A similar word that's been amongst my family and friends quite a long time is 'fruck', as in 'he fruck out' or even adding an additional -ed, 'I was frucked out'...
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