"Snuck" IS a word.

[Maddy McCall]

"I snuck out of the house." I say "snuck" all of the time.

Is "gotten" a word? I say that, too.

"I hung out with him for awhile." Wouldn't proper English be "I hanged out with him for awhile?"

I used to say "I hooked up with them at the restaurant," until I found out that today's youngsters say "hooked up" when they mean "had sex/oral sex with."


What grammar rules to you obliterate, even though you know it's improper usage?

[salin]

1. rang, rung

could never figure out when which was appropriate - or is rung only a thing on a ladder and we just think that it is a form of ring?

[Maddy McCall]

2. Yep, I slaughter that one, too.

:hi:

[salin]

3. hey - the only one who think we are ignorant

using these - are English Majors - everyone else makes the same mistakes :D

[Maddy McCall]

5. So true. I have an good friend who's receiving her doctorate in English.

God help her--I love her, but can't stand to have her correct my grammar when I'm lettin' loose with a bunch of friends.

I speak perfect grammar when I lecture. When I walk out of the classroom, I revert to a good ol' southern girl. :D

[salin]

7. Same for this Hoosier

though I don't slip into full hoosier mode - while though I was raised here - my parents were eastern transplants - and I have been in and out of the state for the past 20 years.. Sorta watered down the full hoosier effect (where single vowels are drawn out to two syllables - and grammar can be butchered beyond belief.) Never the less - do have some of the effects - but they disappear when I am "on stage" so to speak.

[New Earth]

4. no no, that's not what today's youngsters' hooked up means....

it can also mean you just kissed. usually hooked up means you either kissed, or did anything BUT sex.

:)

[Maddy McCall]

6. Well thanks for the correction!

At least I won't freak out the first time that my son tells me that he hooked up with so-and-so.

[progressoid]

8. When I was a pirate, I would say gotten all the time...

"Look at all of my ill-gotten booty"
"Put the ill-gotten booty over there"
"Slow week, not much ill-gotten booty"

[Redstone]

9. No, ma'am, "snuck" is bad English. Period.

Just like "busted" when you mean "broken." I swear, I saw a FRONT PAGE newspaper article a while back that mentioned a car that had a "busted headlight." AAARRGGH!

"Hung out with him" is absolutely proper English. "Hanged out with him" is dead wrong, so you're fine on that one.

Any other subjects of grammar, usage, or spelling that you want me to be a picky pain in the ass about, you just let me know.

Redstone

[mykpart]

10. There was a plastic surgeon with a small penis

who hung himself! So I guess hung is OK. :)

[RebelOne]

11. Snuck is in the dictionary, but it is classified as nonstandard. n/t