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- Speeded vs. Sped - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
The past participles (and past tenses) "speeded" and "sped" are used in different grammatical situations When "speed" is an intransitive verb, the past tense is almost invariably "sped" When "speed" is a transitive verb, the past tense is usually "speeded" (although "sped" is being increasingly used in this situation)
- Suped-up: is it a real idiom (vs souped-up)
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- What is the origin of “call a spade a spade” and does it have racial . . .
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- What is the type of English used in the King James Bible called?
In the King James Version (KJV) of the Bible, there is a distinct type of English present (this passage from Job 1:7-12): And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou?
- Why has the plague on our houses become a pox?
I am sped:—Is he gone and hath nothing? That instance of "a plague on both the houses" evidently remained unchanged from the 1597 quarto to the 1623 first folio edition, even as the two subsequent instances of "A pox o' both your houses" in the quarto edition became "A plague o' both your houses" (along with other significant changes in
- Which is the correct past tense of spin: span or spun?
The conjugation of irregular verbs can vary by dialect In a very unscientific experiment, I googled "span the thread" and "he span the top", and I got a number of results using span as the past tense of spin, so it seems some people still use span as the past tense of spin, although it's rare
- Etymology of div meaning a stupid or foolish person
Acting like a div yesterday: a stupid or foolish person I started to wonder how this term of abuse came about Urban Dictionary has a quaint tale: Actually originates from prison slang in the UK
- word choice - What types of sounds do cars make? - English Language . . .
A driving car makes a different sound than a car that is starting up A driving car might purr if it's a good car, or hum or drone
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