Re: Grammar Nazi's ruin thread again

[Quik]

Wouldn't it be "snuck"?!

And yeah, if you get onto the network or the computers at your district remotely, then you have talent. But other then that, you're a moron.

[iago]

"snuck" isn't a word:

iago@Slayer:~$ echo "snuck" | aspell -a
@(#) International Ispell Version 3.1.20 (but really Aspell 0.50.5)
& snuck 15 0: snick, snack, sunk, Zanuck, suck, snug, stuck, sink, sync, snark, sneak, snook, sonic, sank, snicker

Whereas sneaked is:
iago@Slayer:~$ echo "sneaked" | aspell -a
@(#) International Ispell Version 3.1.20 (but really Aspell 0.50.5)
*

[wires]

I always thought snuck was a word.  Hrm, maybe not in Canada?

[iago]

Aspell isn't Canadian :P

[Quik]

Gah, grammar nazi strikes again.

[Ergot]

Main Entry: snuck
past and past participle of SNEAK

sneak   Audio pronunciation of "snuck" ( P )  Pronunciation Key  (snk)
v. sneaked, also snuck (snk) sneak·ing, sneaks
v. intr.

   1. To go or move in a quiet, stealthy way.
   2. To behave in a cowardly or servile manner.


v. tr.

    To move, give, take, or put in a quiet, stealthy manner: sneak candy into one's mouth; sneaked a look at the grade sheet.


n.

   1. A person regarded as stealthy, cowardly, or underhanded.
   2. An instance of sneaking; a quiet, stealthy movement.
   3. Informal. A sneaker.


adj.

   1. Carried out in a clandestine manner: sneak preparations for war.
   2. Perpetrated without warning: a sneak attack.


[Probably akin to Middle English sniken, to creep, from Old English sncan.]

    Usage Note: Snuck is an Americanism first introduced in the 19th century as a nonstandard regional variant of sneaked. Widespread use of snuck has become more common with every generation. It is now used by educated speakers in all regions. Formal written English is more conservative than other varieties, of course, and here snuck still meets with much resistance. Many writers and editors have a lingering unease about the form, particularly if they recall its nonstandard origins. And 67 percent of the Usage Panel disapproved of snuck in our 1988 survey. Nevertheless, an examination of recent sources shows that snuck is sneaking up on sneaked. Snuck was almost 20 percent more common in newspaper articles published in 1995 than it was in 1985. Snuck also appears in the work of many respected columnists and authors: "He ran up huge hotel bills and then snuck out without paying" (George Stade). "He had snuck away from camp with a cabinmate" (Anne Tyler). "I ducked down behind the paperbacks and snuck out" (Garrison Keillor).

From WordNet (r) 2.0 :

  snuck
       See sneak

[Mythix]

I don't feel this was a grammar nazi issue (love that word). it would be like someone saying "PWNED" or "OMFOGMGOMGOGGOMGOGMG I PWNZ YOU" which I feel is just as bad.

iago wins.

[Towelie]

wtf throw in trash. This is really OFF TOPIC.