Missourian
Diamond Member
What do you say?
I snuck out last night.
or...
I sneaked out last night.
I snuck out last night.
or...
I sneaked out last night.
...in preserving “sneaked” as the past tense of “sneak.” [Random House’s] tolerant view has not snuck up on me; it has sneaked up on me. I will have none of it. To my ear, “snuck” has a jocular sound. It has none of the scary, stealthy, furtive ring of “sneaked.” In a word, it doesn’t sound sneaky. Harumph!