On 6/8/2015 7:41 PM, Russell Standish wrote:
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.
I recently heard a linguist speak on this and his theory was that as a language spreads as
a second language, i.e. is learned by adults, it tends to become more regular - and
English is the prime example.
Brent
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