Tickets for LSU/Oregon Game

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  1. red55

    red55 curmudgeon Staff Member

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    From dictionary.com

    First recorded in writing toward the end of the 19th century in the United States, snuck has become in recent decades a standard variant past tense and past participle of the verb sneak
     
  2. mobius481

    mobius481 Registered Member

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    That's the crappy part. People use the wrong words long enough and they become words. irregardless apparently is recognized now and it is just a terrible non-word.
     
  3. tirk

    tirk im the lyrical jessie james

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    according to dictionary.com every non-word is now a word. we need a better point of reference from this day forward.
     
  4. KyleK

    KyleK Who, me? Staff Member

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    Damn! I was in Texas waaaay too long. I didn't even realize. Correct away my brother, help me get all of this Texas slang out of my system!
     
  5. StaceyO

    StaceyO Football Turns Me On

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    My 10th grade English teacher corrected me on using "snuck" during an oral book report back in 1985. I absolutely did not believe her. I've been an English teacher, myself, for 19 years, and I still don't have a problem with "snuck." Sorry, grammarians...
     
  6. ok awesome

    ok awesome geaux

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    So you are saying that you are a horrible teacher and one of those responsibile for the ruining of the English language?
     
  7. StaceyO

    StaceyO Football Turns Me On

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    No, it's just one of those rules that really never comes up. I have bigger fish to fry, trying to get kids to stop using could of, instead of could've, and "me and (insert name)..."
     

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