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- Speeded vs. Sped - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
So sped has been preferred over speeded for as long as the corpus data goes back Generally speaking, irregular verbs tend to become regular over time, rather than the other way round, though the latter is not unheard of, either However, the more heavily used an irregular verb is, the less likely it is to change
- Is the correct usage to say speed passed or speed past
I will speed past the cop 'will speed' - is the verb phrase 'past' - is an adverb meaning - 'to pass from one side to another' How will you speed? quickly? slowly? or past? 'to pass-passed' is a verb You have finished the verb phrase with 'speed' The next item is an adverb 'past' (adverb, adjective, preposition) and 'passed' (past tense of to pass) are two words that are often mistaken
- etymology - Origin of A pox curse on both their houses - English . . .
Does anyone know the source of the expression (A pox, A curse) on both their houses This is often associated with the end of Romeo and Juliet
- Haste or no haste? That is the question - English Language Usage . . .
The proverb "More haste, less speed" apparently means: You make better progress with a task if you don't try to do it too quickly Oxford Dictionary What is the difference betwen 'haste' and '
- Word for speeding up a process in line with the idiom to kick-start
When a process is improved in such a way that it takes less time to complete, the process is said to have been streamlined The film director found that re-creating the difficult-to-film sequence on a soundstage streamlined the process of completing the film by saving six days of shooting Shooting a film on a soundstage, I am told, has many advantages over shooting a scene on the streets of
- Why has the plague on our houses become a pox?
I am sped:——Is he gone and hath nothing?" That first instance ("a plague on both the houses") remained unchanged from the first folio in the 1623 edition, while the two subsequent instances of "A pox o' both your houses" became "A plague o' both your houses " Excellent observation, Richard Lesh! +1
- etymology - What is the origin of “call a spade a spade” and does it . . .
Now that we know how to punctuate the phrase “call a spade a spade” I am curious where it originated and what the original meaning was Also, the term “spade” can have negative racial connotations
- Which is the correct past tense of spin: span or spun?
Span is an older strong past tense form of spin — this is the past tense form that existed in the older Germanic ancestors of English In German, for example, the past tense of spinnen is still spann In English, span has mostly fallen out of use in favor of spun for both the past participle and simple past forms This is a form of paradigm leveling It has occurred in other words like sting
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