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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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...

Nov 1, 2015 · Very roughly, "speed" is the distance traveled per unit time, while "pace" is the number of operations (which may be, eg, footsteps) that occur per unit time. "Rate" is kind of …

May 1, 2011 · 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 …

Apr 13, 2017 · I was thinking of "to storm out of a room" and I'm wondering if there's an equivalent word (edit: or phrase) that means to go down flights of stairs at a rapid pace. Maybe "bounced …

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.