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[Nomorebirthdays]

Is it Joe pleaded guilty, I see this on TV crawler???

Or is it Joe plead guilty,  sounds ed as in Edward

Joe, how do you plead, long E sound 

[philogirl]

Pleaded is correct; pled is non-standard, but is very common in American English.  I just read an interesting article on this by Jacob Marian. (Google plead vs pled). 

Also, if you hang yourself you say hanged for past tense, not hung.

Often has a silent t.  

[pattypeep]

Ir's like:  how do you plead (before hand) or how do you intend to plea?

When it's done, it's pled (past tense).

[AKgirl2]

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@philogirl wrote:

Pleaded is correct; pled is non-standard, but is very common in American English.  I just read an interesting article on this by Jacob Marian. (Google plead vs pled). 

Also, if you hang yourself you say hanged for past tense, not hung.

Often has a silent t.  

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Thank you @philogirl!

[gizmogal]

Depends on whether you go by common language usage or legal usage. Here is an interesting brief set of comments from the ABA (American Bar Association) Journal written not long ago:

http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/is_it_pleaded_or_pled

Accept the forum opinions or the most common preference of use of the US Supreme Court! Probably not a big deal any way you choose to use it. (And yes, people are hanged, not hung.) 

[20sally]

http://abovethelaw.com/2011/12/grammer-pole-of-the-weak-pleaded-v-pled/

"Pleaded is the standard past-tense and past-participial form of the verb plea.

Pled has always been considered incorrect by usage authorities, but it’s so common that we have to accept it.

… But because pleaded is much more common and is unanimously accepted by all dictionaries and usage authorities, it is safer than pled. And it should be noted that pleaded is preferred by an especially wide margin in publications."

Also from Grammarist.

http://grammarist.com/usage/pleaded-pled/

[20sally]

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@philogirl wrote:

Pleaded is correct; pled is non-standard, but is very common in American English.  I just read an interesting article on this by Jacob Marian. (Google plead vs pled). 

Also, if you hang yourself you say hanged for past tense, not hung.

Often has a silent t.  

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Correct.

[Nomorebirthdays]

Thank you all, when I see pleaded it just seemed odd to me.

[AKgirl2]

Boy @philogirl, @20sally ~ you must cringe when you read most of these posts...I do like posting here, and often put my 2 cents in.  Ain't no stopping me now! 😁

[20sally]

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@AKgirl2 wrote:

Boy @philogirl, @20sally ~ you must cringe when you read most of these posts...I do like posting here, and often put my 2 cents in.  Ain't no stopping me now! 😁

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Lol! Cute @AKgirl2! 

I ain't no expert so ain't no stopping me either neither!