What is appropriate here?
I want to write SPIT, but I'm not sure...
Howard’s lips twitched, he spat on the ground near her knees,
I want to write SPIT, but I'm not sure...
Howard’s lips twitched, he spat on the ground near her knees,
'Spat' is the past tense form, I think, but my ear says that it's a word perhaps on its way out of American English. It has an old-fashioned (odd) feel to it, at least for me.
In other words, all my buddies would say, "I didn't swallow! I spit it out as soon as I tasted that it was Bubba's spit cup instead of my coke!"
Even my educated friends would rarely say 'spat.' It's a word I myself would only use among my literary buds.
You probably think of it being old-fashioned, because you don't know anyone who wears spats.
The reason why your educated friends don't say "spat"is because they do not discuss expectoration.
By the way, I've been meaning to ask, is it 'snicked' or 'snack'.
Today I Snick him... yesterday I Snack him?
Sorry. Weird stuff inhabits my head sometimes.
It follows like "sneak" and "snuck." It is rather strange, but my spell checker seems not to know that "snuck" is a properly spelled word.
Kidding, right?
Though I use and defend "snuck," I know it's, ahem, technically incorrect. Somehow, it snuck into the language.
Are we headed for:
I lick the candy. I luck the candy.
He dicks around. He duck around.
I pick her up. I puck her up.
Kidding, right?
Though I use and defend "snuck," I know it's, ahem, technically incorrect. Somehow, it snuck into the language. Are we headed for:
I lick the candy. I luck the candy.
He dicks around. He duck around.
I pick her up. I puck her up.
Kidding, right?
Though I use and defend "snuck," I know it's, ahem, technically incorrect. Somehow, it snuck into the language. Are we headed for:
I lick the candy. I luck the candy.
He dicks around. He duck around.
I pick her up. I puck her up.
Kidding, right?
Though I use and defend "snuck," I know it's, ahem, technically incorrect. Somehow, it snuck into the language. Are we headed for:
I lick the candy. I luck the candy.
He dicks around. He duck around.
I pick her up. I puck her up.
I really like 'snuck' for 'sneak'. To add to the list we're headed for (one that I really like)-
'think' to 'thunk'