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Re: Gov't to take Teale directly to trial; Domm to be tried

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From: David Sternlight
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 1994 18:08
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In article <1994Apr09.225923.28028@debug.cuc.ab.ca>,
 <Tom@debug.cuc.ab.ca> wrote:

>> My Houghton-Mifflin Cdn dictionary gives "pleaded" and "pled" as 
>> past tense forms; my O.E.D. says "plead" as a past tense is an
>> Americanism.  I don't have an American dictionary, so I'll take your 
>> word for it that "plead" is a past tense in at least some of them.

In the U.S., "plead" as present tense is pronounced the same way as it is in
the rest of the English-speaking world.  "plead" as an American usage of
"pled" (past tense) is pronounced the same way that "pled" is in the rest of
the English-speaking world.

David
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From: strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight)
Subject: Re: Gov't to take Teale directly to trial; Domm to be tried
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