On Tue, Jun 09, 2015 at 02:32:13PM +1200, LizR wrote: > On 9 June 2015 at 14:10, Stathis Papaioannou <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tuesday, June 9, 2015, LizR <[email protected]> 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 [email protected] 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
