May 18, 2008, 08:22 PM
|
|
DavidÃsimo
|
|
Join Date: May 2006
Location: North America
Posts: 5,664
Native Language: American English
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by LaGata
|
Very interesting article Gata.
I recommend reading the entire article. Here are a few quotes I especially liked.
Quote:
"He grubbed ten dollars from de bums an den snuck home." This and other examples suggest that snuck was limited to the speech of uneducated, rural Americans.
|
Quote:
Since the 1950s, snuck has been found with increasingly frequency in neutral contexts--used as a standard past form in written sources without any suggestion of humorous intent. In present-day English, snuck is extremely widespread throughout the country, even among educated speakers, and in the speech of younger people it is the dominant form.
|
Quote:
Snuck is fully standard in American English.
|
Quote:
In British English sneaked remains the usual past form, with snuck appearing only in humorous or nonstandard use.
|
__________________
If you find something wrong with my Spanish, please correct it!
|