Strong verbs, strong language & roses

Newspapers do strange things with English. A few years ago, the New York Times reported that two men whose boat had capsized 'treaded water' for two hours. I runned immediately to a friend who works there and throwed down the copy. 'Who writed this rubbish?'But then, in October another Times headline winned the prize when it goed on to declare, 'The outer limits of optimism; how AOL's sunny forecasts outshined the gloomy facts.' I canned hardly believe my eyes. Excuse me, but the past tense