Which is your preference, pleaded or pled? I was writing about a case that was adjudicated in one of the boards of nursing, and I was unsure about which to use, pleaded or pled. I tended toward pled, and then look it up. This site says that pled has always been considered incorrect, though people do use it.

Which do you use?

I have always used 'pled' in judicial context, 'pleaded' for mercy (etc). Didn't realize 'pled' was not sanctioned by prescriptivists!

I plead guilty of using "pled."

I always thought pleaded was what did to a skirt.

I normally would have written pled too, but I changed it to pleaded.

Oxford Dictionaries say that it's a "North American, Scottish, or dialect past participle of plead".

Here in England we'd say pleaded or plead (pronounced "pled")