Apr 28, 2017 · 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 …

Aug 8, 2024 · It goes back to Old and Middle English, for instance "wið sped" ("with speed", i.e. quickly, in a c. 1250 translation of the Bible). "At altitude" is more recent, but "altitude" as referring to an …

Apr 25, 2018 · 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 …

Mar 2, 2021 · 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 …

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...

Aug 31, 2025 · Regular verbs form the simple past by appending -ed to the stem of the verb. For irregular verbs, the general advice to language learners is that there are no rules, and it is best to …

Nov 28, 2017 · 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 …

Dec 10, 2010 · 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, …

Mar 27, 2012 · 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 …

Somebody needs to rephrase the title of this question to, say: What is a better way to say, "Man, I'm so retarded". Too many people are misunderstanding the question as is.