Crossword Help Forum
Forum Rules

Thank you for asking helenb...

I don't understand them either...

Please join me in the corner and here is your dunces hat...I wear mine at a jaunty angle.

Well thank you Aristo! I've never heard of dove as being the past tense of Dive - it's horrible!! I saw the 'minute' covered by the hole and just didn't associate a hole with a jam, my mind was firmly set on jam (or jelly if you like) as I have been making marmalade today if you follow MY drift

Thanks Pastille Can you hutch up a bit in that corner?

Couldn't make much headway today. Got 4 and the wrong answer for 5, but that was it. For 5, I thought lair (sort of homophone for layer, which can mean cover).

Need to come and join you in the corner, p@ and Helen. Ok if we sample the marmelade?
Heard of dove as past sense of dive, but would never have connected it with "sounding". Dove reminds me of being in China when someone asked what meat they were eating.......

Hi to everyone else who joined since I went to dine.

HelenB.Dove = past tense of dive is in Chamberts and the Concise oxford Dictionary (chiefly N. American) BUT although I realise that 'dived' is "correct" English; "I dived off the ship" doesn't sound as well as " I dove off the ship". I also realiZe the 'purists' will descend on me like vultures. I'll look back tomorrow and remember "I dove for cover" or should it be "I dived for cover"? LOL

AB
You've played a blinder with HOLMES. I'll post my own analysis in a separate post forthwith.

Bless all

J

"sound" in this case refers to (I think) when a whale, for instance, goes deep, i.e.dives. it sounds.

Jolan, enjoyable as always and clever as ever. BUT...... outside of third rate american films NOBODY says " I doved off the boat", they say "I dived off the boat". You needed "dove" to make the clue work so fair enough, I think Aristo would say something similar and he's American.

Hi again Phillip. Indeed you are 100% right. Nobody in the world would say "I DOVED off the boat", neither would I. But I would say "I DOVE off the boat" rather than I DIVED off the boat. I'll say no more about it.

I was called away for a while so I'll post my analysis now.

However, Chambers DOES give dove as past tense of dive, and I certainly do hear people use it here (with long O, as in Chambers); in fact I suppose I have to admit that it's the norm. It's just that I'm conditioned to say dived, even though people have looked at me as if I'm the one who's at fault (probably the same ones who use I objectively, as in "my parents doted on my brother snd I". I often think the world's coming to an end. Like, whatever. :)