Showing posts with label sneaks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sneaks. Show all posts

Friday, September 26, 2008

Donuts and Silence

Oh yeah... in my office...alone. Peaceful and quiet.

Eating a donut. Doughnut? I guess d.o.u.g.h.n.u.t. is correct. Maybe "donut" is one of those words that has now become acceptable.

Like "snuck" - when I was younger, it was grammatically incorrect, but according to dictionary.com, we read the following:

"It is not so common in highly formal or belletristic writing, where sneaked is more likely to occur. Snuck is the only spoken past tense and past participle for many younger and middle-aged persons of all educational levels in the U. S. and Canada. Snuck has occasionally been considered nonstandard, but it is so widely used by professional writers and educated speakers that it can no longer be so regarded."

Oh heck, I'm already on dictionary.com, let's look up "donut" and see what it says:

"n. Variant of doughnut. "

No going off on a tangent with this one - it snuck right into the dictionary and there it sits!

 
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