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snuck into the darkened home” of his girlfriend’s mother.
Things have come to such'a sorry pass that all my dictionaries list “snuck” without even a tsk-tsk or a tut-tut. Indeed, The Random House Unabridged goes bonkers over “snuck. ” The editors say it made its debut in the 1890s and now is accepted in polite society everywhere. Well, sniff, sniff! To my ear “snuck” sounds comic and “sneaked” sounds sneaky, I go with “sneaked” every time.
The Times made me blink several years ago in reporting the indictment of a deer hunter in Maine. The fellow had accidentally killed a woman when she stepped outside her home. Some folks said the defendant “could have mistook her white mittens for the tail of a deer.” To the best of my knowledge, the present perfect subjunctive requires “could have mistaken.” Am I mistooken on this?
A sportswriter for the Times startled at least a few readers this past September in a story about tennis star John McEnroe. The writer remarked that McEnroe in 1984 ac
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