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There are other words that don't sound right to me.
"Sneaked" is proper usage, but "snuck" does sound much better to my ear when used in the active past tense. It just sounds more active. It's also another American word one doesn't hear in other English speaking countries.
English is full of historical peculiarities; it's incorrect to say a man was hung when he was executed. Everything else that hangs- drapery, pictures, do-dads, wallpaper, or what have you, including an animal, is hung- but a man is always hanged. The word implies it's specially reserved for humans only.
It's similar to "who". Everything that flies except for humans are creatures that fly. Humans who fly are humans, not everything else. Individual humans. A group of humans that fly is a group, so "that" becomes proper usage. "Who" applies only to individual people and their actions, thoughts, and all. "That" applies to everything else in nature.
"That" and "who" are the most commonly mis-used words in our language, I think. It's singularity makes it tricky.
"Pleaded" guilty is the word that sounds funny to me. I thought it was "he pled guitly", but I keep seeing "he pleaded guilty" lately.
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Over the counter medicine ad, "If you have hemorrhoids like me . . ."
LOL, he actually refers to himself as a hemorrhoid!
Wilford Brumley used to be in a commercial where he says "I am a diabetic". Do people ever say "I am a cancer"?
Well when I lost control It could have been much worse thankfully I kept control good otherwise I would have went down the side of the high way or hit the pavement wall when I came too a complete stop i was facing on coming traffic and I mean a Simi would have hit me head on but they stopped and allowed me too back up and turn my whole car around and i got off and never went back on scary moment it wasnt just me at that time when i started sliding another car behind me has well lost control..I almost went down the side of the highway but I turned my wheel away and went spinning again and I mean spinning so ya I mean if I wouldn't have acted that fast me and my kid would have been going off the side of the high way I rather hit a wall then go down the side of a high way thank god i didnt hit anything or anyone or nothing hit me. All I did was switch lanes and started lossing control.
I spotted this review on a website for shoes. Unbelievable.
I usually wear 6-6.5, but after reas the reviews, I perchesed size 7, and it fixed .
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