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"Snuck" is a strange American word, the same as "dove" instead of "dived", eg. "he dove into the pool" instead of "he dived into the pool". I would read "snuck"

"Snuck" is a strange American word, the same as "dove" instead of "dived", eg. "he dove into the pool" instead of "he dived into the pool". I would read "snuck" as "sneaked". Another weird word is "gotten". And another strange and irritating phrase that is sneaking its way into English over here is "for free", but "free" is not a price so instead of "buy 3 eggs for £2.00", you get weird phrases "sign up now and get this egg for free", whereas it should be "sign up now and get this egg free" or "sign up now and get this egg for nothing". Always interesting the difference between the languages over time. With reference to the flight, I truly hope they find it somewhere safe.

threedaymonk 13y ago
You'll find much discussion of the growing popularity of snuck on Language Log: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/index.php?s=snuck http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/index.php?s=snuck Snuck is "orig. and chiefly U.S." according to the OED, but it's definitely growing in British usage, too: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=sneaked%2Csnuck&year_start=1900&year_end=2000&corpus=18&smoothing=3 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=sneaked%2Csnuc...
gpjt 13y ago
"gotten" definitely sounds odd to me (I'm from England) but it's worth noting that we do keep that form in "forgotten". Presumably both were acceptable over here at some stage. "I see no reason why gunpowder and treason should ever be forgot."
- paulannesley 13y ago
  The word “forgot” was chosen to rhyme with “plot”, so may not have been a normal use of the word/form. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Guy_Fawkes#Quotes_about_Fawkes http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Guy_Fawkes#Quotes_about_Fawkes (Now you've made me want to watch V for Vendetta again!)
  - dragonwriter 13y ago
    Its worth noting that use of "forgot" instead of "forgotten" is also found in the first line of Auld Lang Syne, where it isn't rhymed with anything.

threedaymonk 13y ago

You'll find much discussion of the growing popularity of snuck on Language Log: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/index.php?s=snuck http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/index.php?s=snuck Snuck is "orig. and chiefly U.S." according to the OED, but it's definitely growing in British usage, too: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=sneaked%2Csnuck&year_start=1900&year_end=2000&corpus=18&smoothing=3 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=sneaked%2Csnuc...

gpjt 13y ago

"gotten" definitely sounds odd to me (I'm from England) but it's worth noting that we do keep that form in "forgotten". Presumably both were acceptable over here at some stage. "I see no reason why gunpowder and treason should ever be forgot."

paulannesley 13y ago
The word “forgot” was chosen to rhyme with “plot”, so may not have been a normal use of the word/form. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Guy_Fawkes#Quotes_about_Fawkes http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Guy_Fawkes#Quotes_about_Fawkes (Now you've made me want to watch V for Vendetta again!)
- dragonwriter 13y ago
  Its worth noting that use of "forgot" instead of "forgotten" is also found in the first line of Auld Lang Syne, where it isn't rhymed with anything.