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To: OneWingedShark
Let me suggest that your assumptions are not correct.

!1) For "sneak," the accepted past tense is "sneaked"; "snuck" is a dialect and vulgar, and is not generally accepted as standard American or British English.

(2) "to bleed" is an irregular infinitive with the past tense being "bled"; using "bleeded" for the past tense indicates limited formal schooling.

(3) For "plead," both the regular "pleaded" and the irregular "pled" are commonly acceptable forms of the past tense.

So "sneaked, "pleaded," "pled," and "bled"are correct and acceptable insttances of the past tense; "snuck" and "bleeded" are not--they are degrees of dialect that ignore common usage.

You might want to revise your last, incorrect response in view of the above, eh? And regarding Noah Webster and his work that is continually being revised for accuracy, is not my "Webster's Third New International Dictionary (Unabridged)" (1981) a good and sufficient authority upon which to rely for the above statements?

66 posted on 05/31/2013 10:27:24 PM PDT by imardmd1
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To: imardmd1
(2) “to bleed” is an irregular infinitive with the past tense being “bled”; using “bleeded” for the past tense indicates limited formal schooling.
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It is evidence of too much government formal schooling.

Being able to use bled, pled, pleaded, and sneaked correctly is evidence of homeschooling.

67 posted on 05/31/2013 10:37:37 PM PDT by wintertime
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