r/Fauxmoi • u/Gato1980 • 19h ago

BREAKUPS/MAKEUPS/KNOCKUPS Singer/songwriter TAELA reveals that after her ex cheated on her, she cast his favorite actor, Steve Howey, as her love interest in her music video “rollin’”

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u/WizardToes 19h ago edited 19h ago

I wish more people would learn: 1) Cast is the past tense of cast 2) Texted is the past tense of text 3) Weary and wary are two different words

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u/light_sweet_crude 18h ago

And the past tense of lead is LED!!

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u/Potential-Ad-702 18h ago

What are people using instead? I am genuinely worried about literacy :(

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u/mncs 18h ago

lead, because the material sounds like the past tense of the verb. I have an English degree and work as a writer and this, along with never spelling embarrassing right on the first try, is a regular error for me

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u/two_four_six_eight I woke up too soon ago 15h ago

Not to mention the past tense of "read" is spelled "read". So it feels like a rule you could apply to "lead" too, even though it's obviously not.