Stircrazy wrote:

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I, for one, refuse to forgive them.  I cringe every time I hear "dove".    They are also fickle in their attachment to the "-ed" ending, as witness the fact that they drop it altogether in adjectives formed from the past tense of of verbs like "knit" - he wore a knit cap, which both looks & sounds wrong.    I've come across other examples, but can't for the life of me bring any to mind! 

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I came across dozens of examples while living there. Don't get me started on 'gotten', 'y'all' or using 'first floor' to mean 'ground floor'!

The most insidious one I can think of is using surgery as a countable noun, and even a few British tennis players are doing that now, as in "I've had three surgeries on my wrist" Operations!!

steven wrote:

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Stircrazy wrote:

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I, for one, refuse to forgive them.  I cringe every time I hear "dove".    They are also fickle in their attachment to the "-ed" ending, as witness the fact that they drop it altogether in adjectives formed from the past tense of of verbs like "knit" - he wore a knit cap, which both looks & sounds wrong.    I've come across other examples, but can't for the life of me bring any to mind! 

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The most insidious one I can think of is using surgery as a countable noun, and even a few British tennis players are doing that now, as in "I've had three surgeries on my wrist" Operations!!

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We had that one out on the Loughborough thread in January after the ITF posted a brief report on Kyle Edmund's win in the final there & referred to the fact that he had had three operations he'd had on his left knee.  It's one of my bêtes noires, too, so I remarked on the fact that it had used the term "operations".  The ensuing discussion was then copied across to a thread I'd started as a result in the Chat section called "The weird & wonderful world of English grammar".  It even includes an explanation of an uncountable noun - cf. pages 2 & 3 thereof.    Oh, & it's not just British tennis players who transgress.  It's everybody in the country who doesn't know any better! 

Ah, fair point   

FWIW ...

Wimbledon Final: (3) Carlos Alcaraz (ESP) WR 3 beat (2) Novak Djokovic (SRB) WR 2 by 6-2 6-2 7-6(4)