2017年4月28日 · The past participles (and past tenses) "speeded" and "sped" are used in different grammatical situations. When "speed" is an intransitive verb, the past tense is almost invariably "sped". When "speed" is a transitive verb, the past tense is usually "speeded" (although "sped" is being increasingly used in this situation).

2018年4月25日 · I will speed past the cop. 'will speed' - is the verb phrase. 'past' - is an adverb meaning - 'to pass from one side to another'

2017年11月28日 · 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 ...

2015年11月17日 · 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.

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...

2012年7月1日 · A driving car makes a different sound than a car that is starting up. A driving car might purr if it's a good car, or hum or drone.

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2011年5月1日 · 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.

2013年1月22日 · 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:

2018年1月13日 · 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.