sneaked_or_snuck
Strideo
Sneaked
or
Snuck?
I
snuck
into
your
house
last
night
and
then
sneaked
out
with
a
pair
of
your
socks
.
...
060329
...
oren
Snuck
is
used
in
American
and
Canadian
English
as
the
past
tense
and
past
participle
of
sneak
,
but
it
is
considered
non-standard,
i
.e.,
or
for
dialectal
and
informal
speech
and
writing
.
The
standard
past
tense
is
sneaked
. Snuck
is
relatively
new
,
an
Americanism introduced
in
the
late
19th
century
.
The
opposite
has
occurred
to
the
past
form
of
slink
. Slunk
was
long
the
standard
form
,
but
then
slinked appeared
and
is
encroaching
on
slunk. Slinked
is
considered
non-standard.
Style
guides
at
some
of
the
biggest
newspapers
in
Canada
and
the
United
States
- including
the
Globe
and
Mail
(
1998
)
and
the
New
York
Times
(
1999
) -
ban
snuck.
But
snuck
may
tiptoe
into
more
formal
writing
as
time
goes
by
.
060329
...
Doar
i
think
the
real
issue
is
that
strideo
seems
to
be
stealing
peoples
socks
.
this
might
be
an
unhealthy
past
time
strideo
.
:)
060329
...
Strideo
I
would
claim
responsibility
for
all
those
mysterious
missing
socks
,
but
as
you
can
see
,
I
already
stated
above
that
I
sneaked
out
with
a
pair
of
socks
and
not
the
infamous
one
missing
sock
from
the
dryer
routine
. ^
_
^
...
060329
...
superleni
no
wonder
you
snocked
someone
.
you
got
cold
feet
after
you'd
left
.
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