THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Tuesday, October 8, 1996 TAG: 9610080017
SECTION: FRONT PAGE: A16 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Letter
LENGTH: 17 lines
Like Guy Friddell, I mourn the passing of ``shone''; it does sound much better than ``shined.'' Another past tense going by the wayside is ``dove.'' When reading the sports page, I realized that ``the player dove for the ball'' or ``the swimmer dove into the water'' sounds much better than using ``dived.''
In this case, as in many others, change is not progress.
TRENTON E. HIZER
Chesapeake, Sept. 30, 1996 by CNB