Dear Jane,
I'm glad this was brought up. I've been wondering what happened to "dove" into the bushes and the glass vessel "shone" in the light. They seem to have disappeared in what I read in the US and are replaced with "dived" and "shined". Now I understand better what is going on!
Australia is just beginning to use "dove" (which I loathe) but "shone" always was and still is. We use "shined" in the sense that "he shined up his war medals". This of course is not to be confused with "shinnied" which means climbed, as in climbed a tree. :)
David in Ballarat, AUS To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
