R_Hatch opened this issue on Jan 22, 2011 · 177 posts
LaurieA posted Sat, 22 January 2011 at 7:04 PM
Quote - Wow. People actually say "supposably"? I thought that was just a Simpsons gag.
Or maybe it was Coupling. Hmm. I can hear Steve from Coupling going on about it, for some reason.
Merriam-Webster acknowledges "pled". If enough people do it, it can become a thing. Supposably, anyways. :unsure:
Somehow, a sentence such as "She pled for her life" doesn't even sound correct, but "She pleaded for her life" does.
I guess it's been misused for so long that now it's correct grammar. Ugh.
You should have been at my job the day that, as a proofreader, I spent nearly 20 minutes trying to explain to another proofreader that it's not Ice Tea, but rather Iced Tea and that it's Brussels Sprouts and not Brussel...lmao.
I don't claim to always use my punctuation perfectly, but I catch a lot of it and unfortunately a lot of what I catch is in a printed book or an advertisement. Shameful ;o).
Laurie