There’s nothing in your reply to my comment which is related to my comment. Are you on or withdrawing from drugs of some kind?
I don’t know whatchoo on about but I’m on about process. Pleading guilty dosnt mean a damn thing.

Billy Goat _ what a dunce. I haven’t even read the story but I’d bet money that it isn’t Austria they’re talking about , but Australia. And the country of Zealand doesn’t exist _ it’s New Zealand. Keep it up, you’re living up to your status as one of Trump’s dumb deplorables.

1) The bandage was *wound* around the *wound*.
2) The farm was used to *produce produce*.
3) The dump was so full that it had to *refuse* more *refuse*.
4) We must *polish* the *Polish* furniture.
5) He could *lead*if he would get the *lead* out.
6) The soldier decided to *desert* his dessert in the *desert*.
7) Since there is no time like the *present*, he thought it was time to *present* the *present*. 8) A *bass* was painted on the head of the *bass* drum.
9) When shot at, the *dove dove *into the bushes.
10) I did not *object* to the *object*.
11) The insurance was *invalid* for the *invalid*.
12) There was a *row* among the oarsmen about how to *row*.
13) They were too *close* to the door to *close* it.
14) The buck *does* funny things when the *does* are present.
15) A seamstress and a *sewer* fell down into a *sewer* line.
16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his *sow* to *sow*.
17) The *wind* was too strong to *wind* the sail.
18) Upon seeing the *tear* in the painting I shed a *tear*.
19) I had to *subject* the *subject* to a series of tests.
20) How can I *intimate* this to my most *intimate* friend?

Pure speculation, but possibly it was just a setup so our host could write the following:

where now it is mostly used in phrases like “Trump’s lawyer and fixer, wise-guy Michael Cohen, pled guilty to helping Trump fix the election,” or “Trump’s former campaign manager and well known wise guy Paul Manafort could have pleaded guilty and gotten a deal, but he may have been more concerned with being rubbed out by the Russians than about a few years in jail” or “Michael Flynn, Trump’s former national security adviser, pled guilty rather than stand trial” and so on.

🙂

But: I’m not sure if there is any issue here, really. Does it really matter which of “pled” and “pleaded” is used, now that both are commonly used and their meanings understood? Seems as unimportant as insisting it is incorrect to end a sentence with a preposition.

Aluminium. I like that. Is that like Waterinium, the alternative name for Hydrogen?

Here is what happens instead: How granular dialects are depends on a number of factors (including physical isolation, but that is in fact almost never the reason a dialect actually differentiates). But at some point you have, with a widely spoken language, a lot of dialects. A typical list of English dialects in America will give one for eastern New England, but in Boston alone there are close to a dozen distinguishable dialects. So figure that for English, globally, there are a thousand or two dialects.

So that happens, then, somebody find out that in some dialect in Virginia or someplace people use a form of a word or a construct that is also found in Shakespeare. Those features of the dialect may or may not be left over from Elizabethan times, but if they are, they are minor compared to the many features of Elizabethan English that are in more common dialects, and thus, not even noticed. Or, they could have emerged more recently and are simply being confused.

But, a combination of incorrect presumptions about language, culture, civilization, etc. are in place, and the cherries are abundant, the theory that this is an ancient remnant emerges, gets printed somewhere, and becomes part of our popular culture. Might even get in textbooks.

cosmiccomics made points that had occurred to me. I recall Bill Bryson describing how many older English words have remained ‘live’ in the one time colonies, in one of his books.

One thing that irritates me is the American spoken use of ‘aluminum’ for aluminium, a metal I was once very familiar with given my day and night jobs as an aircraft engineer, in another life. Should sodium be pronounced ‘sodum’. Just a thought.