Comments on: Feb 20 – pled vs. pleaded

By: Olga

Olga — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 18:57:06 +0000

Thanks for your recordings on LibriVox.org.

Olga (Moscow, Russia)

By: katar

katar — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 06:18:58 +0000

Among lawyers, “pleaded” is more common and considered correct. Early in my legal career my use of “pled” was quoted by an appellate justice with [sic] affixed, who used “pleaded” elsewhere in her written opinion. A few months ago I readed another article on this very question: http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/is_it_pleaded_or_pled/

By: kara

kara — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 16:08:13 +0000

Ha, yes, the sun shone, her eyes shone, he shined his shoes.

By: Diana Minna

Diana Minna — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:32:25 +0000

I am with you about “pled” — “pleaded” sounds plain wrong to me. In that vein, this weekend I heard a skating commentator say that a competitor “shined.” I thought it should be “shone,” with “shined” reserved for shoes adn such, but I hear this more and more often so I suppose it is the shape of things to come.

By: Saul Stokar

Saul Stokar — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 09:33:10 +0000

I have just finished listening your reading of P.G. Wodehouse’s humerous novel “The Girl on the Boat”. The book is side-splittingly funny and your reading is excellent. Once I thought that Wodehouse only “works” when read with an “posh” English accent but this recording proves me wrong. Thanks for many hours of pleasure.

By: Sandy

Sandy — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 14:11:12 +0000

To a native Englishwoman, ‘pled’ sounds odd, like ‘dove’ instead of ‘dived’, which is something I’ve heard Americans say. Strange how our ears pick up on things.

By: Soozan

Soozan — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 12:49:34 +0000

I love that you are my soul mate with grammar. Pleaded is just horrible, and the general misuse of ‘less” when it should be “fewer” drives me batty. I will read your blog more often and get with the program! We should come up with some past tenses of new words that are stronger.
love you so much from your auntie

By: Jen

Jen — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 01:56:25 +0000

I think that Ms. H is probably correct. However, I grew up reading British authors and “pled” sounds much better than “pleaded”. Just what you are used to, I suppose.

By the way, I just finished your Librivox Emma and it was wonderful!

By: kara

kara — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:14:48 +0000

In reply to Mahdi Alyusuf. Thank you so much for the sweet comment, Mahdi! I'm so glad you enjoy my recordings :)

By: kara

kara — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:14:10 +0000

In reply to Ms H.

Very interesting, Ms H! It’s odd that “pleaded” sounds so awful to me, since I’ve always read mostly English authors.

“plead (third-person singular simple present pleads, present participle pleading, simple past and past participle pled (North America, Scotland) or pleaded (England))”

I guess North American newscasters are adopting the English usage here. I guess I’ll just have to get used to it.

I’m glad we are united in our love of strong verbs! :)