As Edo State elected its next governor on Saturday, some words naturally became recurrent as people discussed the poll. Among such are vote/voted, count/counted, collate/collated. Another term that often sparks a grammatical blunder – cast – also resurfaced. It is an irregular verb that, in most circumstances, does not take -ed when in the past tense form, yet some people say they ‘casted’ or have ‘casted’ their votes instead of…
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