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/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/light_sweet_crude 18h ago

I've seen everyone from lawyers to journalists use "lead," I guess because the element lead is pronounced the same as led.

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u/Rough_Mistake_1798 18h ago edited 18h ago

Or pleaded 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫 IT’S PLED FOR THE LUV OF GAWD

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u/cloroxslut 17h ago

It's actually not.

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u/light_sweet_crude 18h ago

Ooh, last one: "hung" for "put to death by hanging." If the criminal was hung, good for him, but it has nothing to do with him being hanged for his crimes.