revena | More on the Setting of Feet

Okay, so the set foot/stepped foot thing, for those of you who were all "bzuh?" about my last post:

I have always heard and said it as "set foot." As in, "he said he'd kill me if I ever set foot in his secret hideout again." rather than "he said he'd kill me if I ever stepped foot in his secret hideout again." I also would use it in the infinitive form, as in "if I ever dared to set foot" rather than "if I ever dared to step foot." But, I have read people using "stepped/step foot" many times, and lately it seems to be cropping up all over - in blog entries, fanfic, novels that I'm reading, etc. And so I started to wonder if maybe my "set foot" was in error? Or maybe it was a regional dialect thing?

Of course, now that a whole bunch of you have weighed in on the side of "set foot" and no one has chosen "stepped foot" yet, I'm confused all over again.

In completely unrelated news, I was flopping on the bed while chatting on the phone a little while ago, and looked over and saw what looked like little tiny bloodstains on the wall over on my side of the bed. After the phone conversation, I took another look. Definitely blood. But like these teeeeny droplets. How did it get there?? Did one of the cats get a torn claw cuticle and then rear up on the wall several times? Did I sneeze with a slightly bloody nose just as I was walking by? IT IS A MYSTERY. And also kinda gross. I should go clean that up while I'm thinking about it, actually.