Snuck vs Sneaked (Page 3 of 8)

Your welcome.

Exactly. My point was (that from within my European perspective), the type of character who would say 'snuck' would be the type of character who would also use words and expressions like; hound dawg, afeared, cuss, high-falutin, mom, gal, nohow, holler, yeehaw etc.

I thought that the word 'cuss' in the USA is a substitute for the word, 'curse' used elsewhere. It is confusing on an international front, because 'cuss' in the more celtic parts of Scotland and Ireland is how 'kiss' is pronounced. In those places,  "He's a sour old cuss." would translate to  "He's an old sourpuss." He may, or may not be cursed.

A 'sour old cuss' is a bit more sour than a mere sourpuss.

As to 'holler', do you mean it as 'bellow' or as as regional pronunciation of 'hollow' (used in the geographic sense)?  "His hollering filled the holler."

I think I meant 'holler'

holler
/ˈhɒlə/
informal
verb
verb: holler; 3rd person present: hollers; past tense: hollered; past participle: hollered; gerund or present participle: hollering
1.
give a loud shout or cry.
"‘I can't get down,’ she hollered"
synonyms: shout, yell, cry, cry out, call, call out, roar, howl, bellow, bawl, bark, shriek, scream, screech, bay, wail, whoop, boom, thunder, raise one's voice, call at the top of one's voice;
"he hollers when he wants feeding"
antonyms: whisper

noun
noun: holler; plural noun: hollers
1.
a loud cry or shout.
"the audience responded with whoops and hollers"

synonyms: shout, cry, yell, roar, howl, bellow, bawl, shriek, scream, screech, bay, wail, whoop; rarevociferation
"the audience responded with whoops and hollers"
antonyms: whisper
Origin •US

man-hating, anti-white bigotry is now pc-approved bigotry, and because within that sphere -- which is the belief that "feminism" has had any political validity beyond coercion to take from some to give to others for two generations -- you are such a bigot, and any simple topic of discussion like "sneaked" vs. "snuck" has elicited here significantly the very same bigotry that created modern feminism to create official approval of "sneaked" and disapproval of "snuck" a century ago because only those people, those anti-feminist, traditionalist, Southern-U.S. people, use "snuck."

No, he can't be so in a public forum. I informed him that his entire contribution to the discussion was worthless because sneaked v.s snuck never came up in his Josey Wales example to demonstrate his bigotry.

Well, it may not be fully compatible with 'latte' and 'mochacino' (have I spelled that right?) but it works just fine with 'gimee'.  And 'hoot and holler line' was telco slang for a phone that rang the other end as soon as you picked it up.

Well, if you insist on pulling the Bell chain, you're going to get gonged.

Let it drop already.

Drop what? A clanger?

If Bell wants to take that tone with me and the Josey Wales, then bring it on. I'll have no one say that I snuck out.

What is this "pull the Bell chain" thing? People within this thread were participating in a discussion about sneaked versus snuck. Dill expressed his opinion that people in the U.K. find the word "snuck" indicative of a low intellect among Americans. That's an observation. Charles crammed his head up his own ass again, and is currently attempting to conduct business from the great interior. Dill didn't create Charles's unfortunate position. We've all had to endure the talking head and its incoherent babbling. Observe that Charles has currently fallen off the cliff of reality and is little more than a pile of bones as we speak, sputtering about feminism and bigotry (his usual topics). This after mocking Gacela when he thought she was American, then retreating when he realized she wasn't. Now he's accusing Dill of what appears to be bigotry against white men -- a rather odd claim, but there you have it. I believe I am also being accused of something, however I've grown weary of attempting to decipher his line of thinking. He's backed himself into a corner again and is lashing out because he knows he's a complete fool, and he knows everyone else knows it, and he's too small-minded to pick himself up and recover gracefully. This is a pattern. We've all seen it over and over. Intelligent discussion here at the site quickly frays because poor little Charles with his Bell chain can't keep up. His only contribution within these forums is to gripe, to correct people's semi-colons from high, high, high on his high horse of stupidity, to mock people for their ideas, their way of speaking, their point of view, their perspective, their thoughts on history. Not in a constructive way, but in a way intended to elevate his own ego and make everyone who enters these forums feel as small as he actually is.

Dill expresses an opinion about the perspective of people in the UK (and himself) on the word "snuck", and THAT is pulling the chain? He was completely on topic! He's saying that the word carries a certain meaning outside America. That's valid within a writing discussion, and quite useful, actually. I may not agree that the word is stupid, but I can appreciate knowing that others might think it is. Aren't we writers? Don't we want to know this stuff? I do?

Charles has said countless odious things, and you say blithely, "He's so very intelligent. He deserves our respect." Dill says (within a discussion about sneaked versus snuck) that "snuck" carries a particular weight outside America. That's not a slam on anyone personally; it's an observation from a different perspective. Delivered light-heartedly. Anyone with a sense of self would have laughed and mocked him for saying Mum. (I don't think that word sounds at all intelligent. The word is Mom.)

Charles takes this as a personal offense rather than an observation, dresses it up with malevolent motivations, and declares Dill a bigot. To this you say, "Stop pulling Charlie's chain. Drop it!"

What is there to drop? Incredulity?

Which you are currently illustrating?

The tone was invoked when you claimed:

Having distinct US colloquial origins, to a British/English ear the word 'snuck' evokes sensations of banjo music and hillbilly imagery.

This includes three false statements. (1) "snuck" is not a U.S. colloquialism; (2) just because British English evolved in some ways away from English spoken in the rest of the world does not make it the correct English; (3) evoking sensations... etc. is something a pretentious twat says.

Perhaps, your contribution being "you've got your head up your ass."

A harpy is always annoying.

No, it's flat out bigotry. There can be no observation of something that does not exist. This is no different than black skin, flat nose, and thick lips indicates low intelligence. Moreover, attributing his/your own bigoted opinion to everyone in the U.K. is typical of a bigot.

I never thought she was an American. I made a comparison between her absurdity (paraphrasing: that everyone should speak the same regular English) and another absurdity {"That Americans should have American names.") That she and you are irony-challenged should not have come as a surprise to me.

...That you and he speak politically-correct (antiwhite(ness) and feminist) bigotry in your opinions, and, again, that you and he don't even know what I am talking about should come as no surprise because, more or less, within the meaning of 'bigotry' is ignorance and under-powered IQ.