On Tue, Jun 09, 2015 at 02:32:13PM +1200, LizR wrote: > On 9 June 2015 at 14:10, Stathis Papaioannou <stath...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Tuesday, June 9, 2015, LizR <lizj...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> (And what's wrong with "sneaked" ?) > >> > > > > I was trying to be faintly amusing, but I see that "snuck" may have > > sneaked into the language: > > > > http://dictionary.reference.com/help/faq/language/g08.html > > > > Not yet, by gad! It's still "non-standard"... > > Also, I see 'slinked' has slunk off. >
I have a theory that some verbs oscilate between weak and strong forms on some kind of multigenerational timescale. I was brought up saying "snuck", "lit", "dove" rather than "sneaked", "lighted" and "dived", for example. Cheers -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
