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28 de abr. de 2017 · When "speed" is a transitive verb, the past tense is usually "speeded" (although "sped" is being increasingly used in this situation). Consider the Google Ngram for "speeded/sped down the road". It's almost always "sped". Now, compare the Google Ngram for "speeded/sped the process". It's usually "speeded", although "sped" is now becoming more ...
25 de abr. de 2018 · I'm having a debate with a friend and to my surprise a Google search on this question didn't provide any answers. In short which of the two sentences is correct? "I will speed passed the police
1 de mai. de 2011 · 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.
28 de nov. de 2017 · 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 Mercutio's dying speech) in the first folio.
I also find fascinating that we usually seem to use the past tense sped in the UK (he sped up the motorway) except in the multi-word-verb expression speed up (when he realised how late he was, he speeded up). –
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...
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22 de jan. de 2013 · Almost ten years ago, I checked and recorded the relative popularity of leaped and leapt in Google results, because the following assertion in Webster's Dictionary of English Usage (1989) intrigued me:
13 de jan. de 2018 · Jezebel:/ The Queen had inkling: instantly she sped/ To curl the Cockles of her new-bought head:/ The Saphyr, Onyx, Garnet, Diamond,/In various forms cut by a curious hand,/ Hang nimbly dancing in her hair, as spangles: Here the "Cockles" appear to be ringlets, perhaps (in this case) on a wig.
5 de dez. de 2013 · "Theoretically speaking," and its more scientifically correct cousin "hypothetically speaking," are used to introduce an informal idea or question, often one that might seem silly or out of place, in order to open debate on the matter or get people thinking, or to answer with a best guess based on some domain knowledge: “Theoretically speaking, what if we used frog DNA to fill in dinosaurs ...
