Chronicle heading: "Flitcroft believes Rhodes dove but makes no excuses for defeat"

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  1. Spirit Ditch

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    More quality grammar from the local rag
     
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    Re: Chronicle heading: "Flitcroft believes Rhodes dove but makes no excuses for defea

    Isn't Dove the American version of the correct Dived?
     
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    Re: Chronicle heading: "Flitcroft believes Rhodes dove but makes no excuses for defea

    I just saw that- it's accepted (and popular) in America. Idiots
     
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    Re: Chronicle heading: "Flitcroft believes Rhodes dove but makes no excuses for defea

    Are you sure it's not actually a somewhat archaic but still valid use of the past subjunctive (belief being an "unreal" state)?

    "Who will police the grammar police?"
     
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