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To: EveningStar
Taking my tongue out of my cheek, there is a word which is increasingly absenting itself from the vocabularies of poorly schooled so-called "journalists," more often displaying themselves as "bloggers."

The word, seemingly becoming obsolescent, is sneaked, the past tense form of the verb "to sneak."

The poor vulgar colloquialism replacing it is the word snuck, a truly inelegant form that reminds one of other rude words ending in "-uck," with neither present nor past tense form. In the past tense, it ought to at least be expressed as "snucked."

The correct and proper past these of the verb "to sneak" is "sneaked," as mentioned.

Using the word "snuck" marks one as either rude of education, or ignorant of the use of the simplest dictionary for preparing articles fit to be printed, from the language syntax sense.

Let's have the word "sneaked" back again, eh?

47 posted on 05/31/2013 10:49:29 AM PDT by imardmd1 (An unofficial grammar-Nazi strikes again)
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To: imardmd1
Let's have the word "sneaked" back again, eh?

No.
'Sneaked' is one of those words that, while technically correct, sounds ugly... though not as bad as pleaded or bleeded.

56 posted on 05/31/2013 3:06:33 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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