I have noticed since working at a television station during the live news broadcasts, that there has been a change from the news I remembered watching growing up. The news anchor used to commonly say 'pled' when they talked about a plea at a court case, but now, you hear them say 'pleaded'. Why is this? I think it is because it makes the criminal look more guilty without saying they are guilty. They pleaded to the judge sounds a lot worse than they pled to the judge. Pleaded used to be the only grammatically correct version, but they are both considered by Webster to be appropriate. Here are a couple interesting discussions online about this already:
http://boaltalk.blogspot.com/2008/02/pleaded-v-pled.html
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2006/May/28/ferguson-using-pled-and-pleaded/
Just an semantic observation I wanted to share. Any thoughts on this?
Maybe it is the Mandala Effect?
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