Yes, but I infer from what I've seen that, if you don't have a particular publication's style guide to follow, then "TV" is the more common usage. Moreover, if you use it, you don't end up writing something like "Tv isn't what it used to be," which looks wrong to me.
That's what she saided.My spell checker freaks out when I spell it "canceled". And, yeah, it should be "pled". What's next? "I rided the bus today"?
Again, I think it's one of those cases where either form is acceptable. Fowler's Concise Dictionary of Modern English Usage says
Certainly I'm used to pleaded but a quick poke round with Google suggests that, while both are used in the USA, pled is probably more popular (I see my UK spellchecker is underlining pled, btw).
Cop out!
I was sitting in the school cafeteria one day and asked, "where's the ketchup at?" One of the resident grammar nazis admonished me with, "It is improper to end sentences with a preposition". So I glanced up at him, considered for a moment, then said, "ok, where's the ketchup at, asshole?"I'm late to this particular party, but pretty sure it should be 'He turned off the television', because (and I'm quoting my personal favourite grammar nazi now) 'Contractions are vulgar and you should not end a sentence with a preposition'. But granny thought that touching your own hair in public made you a prostitute. I'm not sure about touching someone else's hair; that probably made you a hairdresser, which, who knows? could be worse
