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[Michael Newman]

I didn't know "snuck" was non-standard until well after college.



Michael Newman
Associate Professor of Linguistics
Queens College/CUNY
michael.newman at qc.cuny.edu



On Jul 14, 2012, at 12:49 AM, Wilson Gray wrote:

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> Back in the day, I was under the impression that people who used
> "snuck" in place of "sneaked" were just joking. Why, not even
> country-blues singers boasting of their backdoor-manliness used thea
> pswaydo-word! More recently, I've long been under the impression that
> my nonce-formations, such as "work-arounding" a problem, were peculiar
> to me. But, it's becoming apparent that not only are such formations
> not to me, but they're also not even peculiar. Except to me.
>
> Youneverknow.
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