Re: Does it despense vast amounts of bog rool??
I would respectfully disagree. In the sense used by the author (described movement not joining threads to make cloth), is perfectly correct on either side of the pond.
Language does change: my mum (an English teacher) was taught as a child that the correct spelling of the word "show" is "shew". Not any more.
Collins English Dictionary
The form weaved is used for the past tense and past participle for meaning e.g.
if you weave your way somewhere, you move between and around things as you go there.
The cars then weaved in and out of traffic at top speed. [VERB preposition]
He weaved around the tables to where she sat with Bob. [VERB preposition]
Here’s what the Yanks say:
“Weaved, wove, woven
The verb weave is usually inflected wove in the past tense and woven in the perfect-tense and past-participial forms. But weaved is more common where weave means to move in and out or sway from side to side. This is the case in all the main varieties of English, though British writers are particularly wont to use weaved for all senses of the word—a growing phenomenon.”
Old codgers today, eh?
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