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Re:The melancholy decline of the semicolon by dsr_ on Saturday November 27, 2021 @08:57AM (#29360163)
Present: "He leads me to believe in grammatical rigor."

Past: "She led me to that conclusion long ago."

Past, growing popular but historically incorrect: "She lead me to that conclusion long ago."

Noun: "I licked the sweet lead off the wall."

Also noun: "After six rounds of chess-boxing-sprinting, it was not clear to either of the participants who had the lead."

Also also popular but historically incorrect noun: "We have eighty thousand lead-free ornaments on this wall, each lit by an individually-addressable led."

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Re:The melancholy decline of the semicolon by denton-scratch on Sunday November 28, 2021 @01:12AM (#29366618)
And each led connected to power by its own lead. Incidentally, are those ornaments electrically-powered? Don't they need leads to provide power?
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Re:The melancholy decline of the semicolon by NoSorryCannot on Saturday November 27, 2021 @11:13AM (#29361192)
This is spelling, not grammar. It's the same word, not a noun, spelled differently.
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