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I used to think "snuck" was correct, but TIL.
Never trust Merriam-Webster. I don't know if the errors I found are fixed now, but the fact they existed in the first place is disappointing. The only trustworthy English dictionary is Oxford.
Edit: Snuck is a US informal term, according to the backup dictionary, Collins. This dictionary is riddled with ads, but also multiple sources for alternative definitions.
Imagine being so far up your own ass you call another dialect a mistake that shouldn't exist.
The Merriam Webster link didn't say it was incorrect as the guy implied. They said it's a correct form and gave the history.
Correct. Thats also what I read. Snuck is irregular, and came about due to common use anyway. So while it’s not correctly following ver typical rules, it’s adopted into the lexicon anyway.
Skibidi. 🙄🙄
Dialects exist
Sneaked feels weird ngl
Though, interestingly, it doesn't feel weird to me for the past form, only the past participle!
There is no 'correct', there is only what is spoken. Snuck is perfectly acceptable.
I snuck into your mom's house last night
mum*
Haha no, she wasn't able to keep mum. She never can.
Unexpected comment elicited a guffaw… Well done 😁😂
Sneakt
This is the only correct form. Until this very moment I have almost always fallen on the descriptivist side of things, but this is now the prescriptivist hill I will die on.
No you sneakn't
I would say snekn’t, but that got me banned on some other site.
https://youtu.be/PJVNzwTnfbk?t=60s
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Spelled or spelt?
It depends whether you're English or American. Spelt is English.
Spelt is also a grain, a variant of wheat.
Yeah, one of the earliest cultivars
Spelt is not proper English.
Edit: I retract Collins as a trustworthy source.
Of course it is!
Are you not aware of the different forms of English? There are several differences between American English and British English, "spelled" and "spelt" being one example.
Collins and Merriam-Webster are both American English dictionaries, and the Oxford English Dictionary is a British English dictionary.
Smelled or smelt?
He who smelt it delt it.
Smelt is a family of fishes.
Dreamed or dreamt?
Felled or felt
Fucked or fuct?
Burned or Burnt?
Isn't spelt, like an ocean minnow?
That’s the grain with the P. It’s a family of fish, smelt.
Yeah, I smelt it.
"snuck" is perfectly fine, as long as that's what you've heard since birth. 🤷