The Red and Black

Park safety heightened after alumna murder

Abstract:
The memory of a Georgia hiker's disappearance and death resonates one year later in a bundle of new park safety procedures, and traffic on the trails has increased.

Meredith Emerson, a 24-year-old former University student noted for her academic endeavors and love for the outdoors, disappeared from Blood Mountain Trail in Blairsville on New Year's Day 2008....

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Wow

posted 1/13/09 @ 9:21 AM EST

I plead with you-- "plead" is not the past tense of anything! You have two choices there and the R&B keeps picking a third that doesn't work. Stop doing this!

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just for reference

posted 1/13/09 @ 6:30 PM EST

Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage provides the following information on the past tense forms of plead:

Plead belongs to the same class of verbs as bleed, lead, speed, read, and feed, and like them it has a past and past participle with a short vowel spelled pled or sometimes plead. Competing with the short-vowel form from the beginning was a regular form pleaded. Eventually pleaded came to predominate in mainstream British English, while pled retreated into Scottish and other dialectical use. Through Scottish immigration or some other means, pled reached America and became established here.

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just for reference

posted 1/13/09 @ 6:32 PM EST

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Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage provides the following information on the past tense forms of plead:

Plead belongs to the same class of verbs as bleed, lead, speed, read, and feed, and like them it has a past and past participle with a short vowel spelled pled or sometimes plead. Competing with the short-vowel form from the beginning was a regular form pleaded. Eventually pleaded came to predominate in mainstream British English, while pled retreated into Scottish and other dialectical use. Through Scottish immigration or some other means, pled reached America and became established here.

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Wow

posted 1/14/09 @ 9:32 AM EST

Right-- so why isn't it changed here? Pleaded or pled, with the former preferred. Those are the only possible choices in American English--look it up.

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Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage provides the following information on the past tense forms of plead:

Plead belongs to the same class of verbs as bleed, lead, speed, read, and feed, and like them it has a past and past participle with a short vowel spelled pled or sometimes plead. Competing with the short-vowel form from the beginning was a regular form pleaded. Eventually pleaded came to predominate in mainstream British English, while pled retreated into Scottish and other dialectical use. Through Scottish immigration or some other means, pled reached America and became established here.

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