Erm, dove IS the past tense of dive. Whilst it is chiefly a North American word, it has been acceptable as part of the English lexicon for several hundred years.

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Both dived and dove are standard as the past tense of dive. Dived, historically the older form, is somewhat more common in edited writing, but dove occurs there so frequently that it also must be considered standard: The rescuer dove into 20 feet of icy water. Dove is an Americanism that probably developed by analogy with alternations like drive, drove and ride, rode. It is the more common form in speech in the northern United States and in Canada, and its use seems to be spreading. The past participle of dive is always dived.

kinda like hanged and hung then?

$84, it's called a dialect. It's not "screwing up the English language." If making changes to a language is screwing it up, I guess brits screwed up the Latin/Germanic/etc languages...

Geez, #101. If you're going to criticize (yes, I totally spelled that with a z) people for butchering the English language, don't try to prove your point with bad grammar. Run-on sentences aren't cool. I promise I'm not a grammar Nazi. :P The irony was just funny.

pointerdog, shut the **** up. I'm sorry that we, Americans (and Canadians, apparently), residents of the continent thousands of miles away from your home, speak differently than you do. Obviously we're going to use YOUR language to create ours, you ******* colonized much of North America. Obviously we're going to change it as time passes, we're thousands of miles away from you (as I previously stated). Now stop complaining because OUR language (yes, our English language. Would you rather that I say you and I speak the exact same language? Because we don't. We spell words differently and we have different verb tenses) is different from yours and be happy that you probably don't see all that many Americans. (I'm assuming you live in GB based on your clear unhappiness with Canadians/Americans). And stop trying to be a grammar Nazi when the reason for the "mistake" is obviously a culture/language thing. Try to spend more time attacking people who actually are ruining English (AKA: ppl who like 2 type like ths).

How can you hate individual Americans for something the society as a whole did many years ago? I had no control over the changing of the language, and to be honest I use some British phrases that not many Americans use. It's not like I hate Britain or whatever I just hate the ones that hate all Americans because most Americans are arrogant morons. That's like hating all Germans because of the Nazis.

Oh please the English language is already messed up. Even weird is spelled weirdly.

Pointer, "You're anger?" Really? And you complain about Americans butchering the English language.

"Distance from the source does not require you to change it?" No, it's not distance from the source, it's just the evolution of language. Obviously, the languages won't evolve the same, since they are seperated. Don't tell me English is the same over in Great Britain as it was hundreds of years ago.

Besides, everyone knows that British people aren't really people, they're more like walking bags of tea and crumpets who sound like duchebags and have bad teeth. I'd make fun of cricket too, but in all fairness it's better than baseball.

lol he's just upset because America beat those pansy tea drinkers. FREEDOM!

Way to show the world you don't know what 'second base' is... apparently you've never been there!!