A Really Common Mistake
rogersgeorge on February 22nd, 2017
I suppose we’ll lose this battle, but “snuck” is incorrect. It’s “sneaked“!
I suppose Ray Billingsley can be forgiven for wanting to make Curtis idiomatic, but don’t you ever use “snuck” in your writing. I suppose it’s imitative of sing, sang, sung. Except ever try saying “snack” for the past tense of “sneak”? Doesn’t work, does it? So we went with the perfect, and now we say “sung” when we mean “sang.” Sigh. I’m such a curmudgeon, wanting to get language right…
It’s spelled “meow,” by the way, and the sound kittens make is “mew.”
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