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To: Verginius Rufus

Conjugate: sneak.... snuck... snack!!


17 posted on 07/08/2012 12:40:49 PM PDT by Wings-n-Wind (The main things are the plain things!)
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To: Wings-n-Wind
Conjugate: sneak.... snuck.... snack!!

Same forms for the verb "snicker-sneak" as in

"The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!"

That's from Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky." But maybe the meter made him disregard the grammar. Shouldn't it have been "The vorpal blade done went snicker-snack"?

26 posted on 07/08/2012 1:54:40 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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