So he
“dove”
did he? Not sure why that needed " "
For a moment I thought that someone at last was going to note that the verb to dive is not an irregular verb and that the past participle is dived. Silly me.
But FYI in British English we always said dived. I first noticed ‘dove’ in US writing about a decade ago, I guess. It has offended my sensibilities ever since. I can only speculate that someone entirely unsure decided for some weird reason that dived did not seem right, figured it may have been like the irregular verb drive and taken their cue from that, and that everyone else on the North American continent dived straight in to the same pool.
ETA and then I nose-dived (not nose-dove, eh, USians?) into Google. Seems it may be a US dialect expansion thingy and drive/drove may be in part responsible, and it has become more prevalent in the past 50-60 years. The word ‘increasingly’ is the main clue here.
No apologies for the derail seeing as Carla decided it needed to be " " in the first place. 
