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Two escape from sinking dinghy

9:16am Friday 9th May 2008

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TWO teenagers have swum to safety from a sinking dinghy.

The Southend RNLI lifeboat was launched at 2pm yesterday (Thursday) off the Leigh shore.

They found the two men had swum safely to shore and recovered the boat.

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Peter, x-ss3 says...
2:44pm Fri 9 May 08

The past participle of the verb 'to swim' is 'swum', not 'swam'.

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Robb, Thorpe Bay says...
3:09pm Fri 9 May 08

Actually, as there is no standard English anymore because Americanisms have crept into our language (read Bill Bryson's mother tongue) the word Swam is actually a past tense now. It is in the Websters dictionary and also recognised in the Oxford dictionary. So, as a word it can be considered correct.

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karateman1964, Poole Dorset says...
4:52pm Fri 9 May 08

swum ,swan who cares...always some little swot gotta keep correcting you

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local resident, southend says...
5:15pm Fri 9 May 08

Anyway just glad they are safe...though perhaps if the teenagers had been school they may have been able to help us with the correct tense/word!

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