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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
How would you describe a car kicking up clouds of dust as an adverb of . . . In English, we tend to relate to the cause of something (cause and effect) Hence your car kicking up clouds of dust But this is not the only way to describe the scene We can also use (effect and implied cause) A cloud of dust hung above a distant road, as a the black car sped towards the city
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
What does gotcha mean? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Gotcha actually has several meanings All of them can be derived from the phrase of which this is a phonetic spelling, namely " [I have] got you" Literally, from the sense of got = "caught, obtained", it means "I've caught you" As in, you were falling, and I caught you, or you were running, and I grabbed you It's a short step from the benign type of caught to the red-handed type of caught
word choice - What types of sounds do cars make? - English Language . . . Modern cars aren't supposed to make much noise at all There's the comfort of travellers and the general public near the highway to consider, not to mention the fact that fuel economy implies aerodynamic body shape At most, what we're looking for is something like "muted hum"
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